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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
Welcome and Introduction to the Frames Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario:
00:00:00
Opening Keynote Address: Lynn Roberts [The Frame Blog, London]: “Histories of the frame” (30 minute talk) 00:28:56
Morning Session:
Martin Hanssen [Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena] : “The Bonn Diptych and Its Frame, c. 1485. Technical Investigations Into an Unusual Devotional Object 01:06:14
Jesús Jiménez Peces [Complutense University, Madrid]: “The problem of originality and documentation in Spanish frames of the 17th century” 01:27:50
Marco Bei [Scuola Normale Superiore]: “What really is a Maratta frame?” 01:50:31
Federica Gigante [University of Cambridge]: “Venetian Fifteenth-Century Frames with Islamic Bookbinding Motifs” 02:11:51
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
Welcome and Introduction to the Frames Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario:
00:00:00
Opening Keynote Address: Lynn Roberts [The Frame Blog, London]: “Histories of the frame” (30 minute talk) 00:28:56
Morning Session:
Martin Hanssen [Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena] : “The Bonn Diptych and Its Frame, c. 1485. Technical Investigations Into an Unusual Devotional Object 01:06:14
Jesús Jiménez Peces [Complutense University, Madrid]: “The problem of originality and documentation in Spanish frames of the 17th century” 01:27:50
Marco Bei [Scuola Normale Superiore]: “What really is a Maratta frame?” 01:50:31
Federica Gigante [University of Cambridge]: “Venetian Fifteenth-Century Frames with Islamic Bookbinding Motifs” 02:11:51
