Detail of the frame for Tintoretto's The Muses

Frames in the Royal Collection

A guide to the history of frames in the Royal Collection

? BRITISH SCHOOL, 17TH CENTURY

Renaissance-style

RCIN 7402610

A flat profile with gilt relief carving over a painted panel gave a simple and elegant frame to paintings in the seventeenth century. Only a few of these frames that surround paintings acquired by Charles I (1600-49) remain in the Collection.


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