The Art of the Edge: European Frames 1300–1900

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00128

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This essential guide features individual entries of exceptional frames from the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. An essay by Steven Starling charts the development and stylistic history of frames, referencing examples included in the catalogue. Additionally, Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset's foundational essay illuminates the large, broader conceptual issues associated with the subject. The book includes a glossary of terms and an extensive, interdisciplinary bibliography.

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PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

Print publication date January 1986 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780865590625

EISBN 9780300234008

Illustrations 112 illus.

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Foreword and Acknowledgments

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

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James N. Wood

Art museums are in essence frames. A museum separates the art it contains from the chaos of the outside world and encourages aesthetic appreciation. We enter The Art Institute of Chicago through doorways framed by a monumental Renaissance Revival façade. Inside, the walls, ceilings, and openings of the original 1893 building that houses the European...

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James N. Wood

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

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Introduction

Art museums have long been ambivalent about picture frames. Following attempts at systematic, standardized reframing in the 18th and early 19th centuries, art museums in the 20th century in both Europe and America more or less accepted paintings in the frames that came with them. This habit of indifferent acceptance has resulted in a veritable chaos of frames...

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PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

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Chapter subject tags:Picture frames and framingHistoriographyArt museumsDecorative arts

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The Art of the Edge: The Art Museum and the Picture Frame

The independent picture frame has a neatly definable history. It began in Italy during the early years of the Renaissance, largely as the result of the privatization and secularization of the painting, and it ended during the last decades of the 19th century, as painters began either to ignore the frame or to subsume it into the arena of the picture itself...

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PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

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Chapter subject tags:Picture frames and framingDecorative artsAltarpieces, RenaissanceArt museumsWood-carving

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Meditations on the Frame

José Ortega y Gasset

There are very few things in this room where I now write; among them, however, are two large photographs and a small painting, which, in times of forced leisure, sickness, or fatigue, are favorites in attracting my attention. The two photographs face each other from opposite walls...

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José Ortega y Gasset

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

Related print edition pages: pp.21-25

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Chapter subject tags:Picture frames and framingDecorative artsOrtega y Gasset, José, 1883-1955Decoration and ornament

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European Frames in The Art Institute of Chicago

For nearly fifteen days a very richly gilded picture frame has been on view in the chambers at Versailles, destined to receive a portrait of the Queen.
– Mercure de France, 1775

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PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

Related print edition pages: pp.26-44

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Chapter subject tags:Picture frames and framingDecorative artsWood-carving, RenaissanceAltarpieces, Renaissance

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Catalogue

Unless otherwise stated, measurements for height, width, and molding width are made at maximal points. Measurements for depth do not include later, supplemental back frames.

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PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

Related print edition pages: pp.45-118

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Chapter subject tags:Picture frames and framingDecorative artsWood-carving

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