The Study and Imitation of Old Picture-Frames

• Autores: Nicholas Penny
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 140, Nº 1143, 1998, págs. 375-382
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Just over a century ago, in 1897, Michelangelo Guggenheim published an anthology of photographs of more than a hundred Italian renaissance frames, Le Cornici italiane dalla meta del secolo XV allo scorcio del XVI, the first major contribution to scholarship in this branch of art history. Guggenheim was one of the leading art dealers in Venice, engaged in selling 'jugs and rugs and candlesticks' as well as paintings and sculptures and, perhaps partly because he supplied museums, he developed a scholarly interest in his wares which eventually overtook his commercial interests. He bequeathed to his native city a great collection of historic textiles and another of old ornamental wood carvings.'