Tabernacle frame. (Italian, late nineteenth or earth twentieth century). Samuel Kress Collection. National Gallery, Washington, D.C.
In a continuing series on painting frames, I would like to focus on a particular style: the tabernacle frame.
According to researchers at that National Gallery in Washington, the tabernacle frame grew out of devotional paintings. The architectural nature of [...]
Gustave Leonhard de Jonge (French, 1829-1893) Widow in Mourning. Oil on canvas. Private collection.
In viewing or buying a painting it is easy to overlook its frame. The right frame with the right painting can make an enormous difference, just as the wrong frame on a painting can distract from what would be considered a [...]