Title: A history of European picture frames /
Authors: Mitchell, Paul.; Roberts, Lynn.
Date: 1996
Publisher: P. Mitchell in association with Merrell Holberton,
Physical description: 136 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Language: English
LC classification: N
Abstract: "This book is the culmination of over twenty years' work by Mitchell and Roberts, widely known frame historians and consultants. They have undertaken photographic surveys of frames in most major museums in Europe and North America, as well as in many historic houses and exhibitions. This analysis of frame styles and their inter-relationships over eight centuries is organised by nationality and period with fifty-six carefully constructed diagrams in the form of framemakers' pattern books, interspersed with thirty-eight plates of framed paintings. Components are drawn directly from photographs of 268 frames original or contemporary to their pictures."--Jacket.
Contents: Italy -- France -- Britain -- The Netherlands and Belgium -- Germany and Central Europe -- Scandinavia -- Spain.
Subject headings (LCSH): Picture frames and framing--Europe--History.; Picture frames and framing--Europe.