Installation view of ‘Louis Style: French Frames, 1610–1792’ (courtesy J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles) Walk into a gallery of 17th- or 18th-century French paintings and prepare to be blinded by the ...
Frames are ubiquitous to the point that they’re unassuming. Paintings become art when bound in gilded frames, but we appreciate the former and seldom acknowledge the latter. We also see frames in ...