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Reframing GABRIËL METSU, Lucia Wijbrants, 1667, Minneapolis Institute of Art
Posted: 04 Dec 2024 by PML
This portrait - although the sitter’s identity was only recently discovered - turns out to have descended in her family for two hundred years, almost certainly retaining its original frame, until it was sold to a member of the Rothschild family in 1865.
Reframing JACOB HUYSMANS, 1st Earl of Lichfield & his wife as children, 1674, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Posted: 09 Oct 2024 by PML
In 2012 this striking double portrait of a future husband and wife by the Flemish-born artist, Jacob Huysmans, was acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne ...
Reframing ZURBARÁN, The Battle between Christians & Moors at El Sotillo, Metropolitan Museum, New York
Posted: 10 Jun 2024 by PML
The large arched painting of the Battle between Christians and Moors at El Sotillo in the Met Museum was only one part of an immense altarpiece, about 15 metres high, painted by Zurbarán in 1637-39 for a Carthusian monastery near Cádiz ...
Reframing JUAN DE VALDÉS LEAL The Conversion and Baptism of St. Augustine by St. Ambrose, Saint Louis Art Museum
Posted: 22 Feb 2024 by PML
The project to reframe this painting by one of the great 17th century Spanish masters was very exciting, since it required the design to incorporate a sense of the piety, symbolism and Catholic splendour of the original setting. This is one panel from a set of seven canvases which surrounded an altarpiece of the Madonna and Child by Murillo in the private oratory of the Archbishop of Seville, in southern Spain ...
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