Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This online conference on the history and conservation of frames is co-organized by the museum’s curatorial and conservation departments to promote inter- and multi-disciplinary dialogue. The AGO is home to an important collection of historic frames, and a project is currently underway at AGO to catalogue and conserve this collection to make the collection more accessible for study and use. In light of this project, the symposium aims to present current research that contextualizes frames in their many incarnations, including research on frame makers, framing traditions, frames’ afterlives, frame collections, pairings of frames to paintings, artists’ frames, the commercial history of framing, and related topics.
For more information visit:
ago.ca/events/many-lives-picture-frames-context
Midday Session:
Gerry Alabone [National Trust, England]: “Mary Ashfield: seventeenth-century London framemaker”.
00:03:51
Géraldine Bidault [Musee national du Chateau de Versailles]: “Notable bordures of the 18th century from the Versailles Palace”
00:32:30
Marie Dubost [Freelance Conservator, France]: “La Reparure in Western Europe”
00:51:54
This online conference on the history and conservation of frames is co-organized by the museum’s curatorial and conservation departments to promote inter- and multi-disciplinary dialogue. The AGO is home to an important collection of historic frames, and a project is currently underway at AGO to catalogue and conserve this collection to make the collection more accessible for study and use. In light of this project, the symposium aims to present current research that contextualizes frames in their many incarnations, including research on frame makers, framing traditions, frames’ afterlives, frame collections, pairings of frames to paintings, artists’ frames, the commercial history of framing, and related topics.
For more information visit:
ago.ca/events/many-lives-picture-frames-context
Midday Session:
Gerry Alabone [National Trust, England]: “Mary Ashfield: seventeenth-century London framemaker”.
00:03:51
Géraldine Bidault [Musee national du Chateau de Versailles]: “Notable bordures of the 18th century from the Versailles Palace”
00:32:30
Marie Dubost [Freelance Conservator, France]: “La Reparure in Western Europe”
00:51:54
