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Description: Articles, interviews and reviews to do with antique and modern picture frames
by Marc O. Manser and The Frame Blog
Leonardo Scaglia (fl. 1636-59) & Francesco Giglioni, Altarpiece of the Rosary , 1648, frame for Simone Cantarini (1612-48), Madonna of the rosary with SS Dominic & Catherine , 1642, Collegiate Church of San Medardo, Arcevia, Marches
Further to the trilogy of articles [1] on the ways in which altarpieces, secular paintings and looking-glasses might be hidden behind various covers, here is a surviving example of a sacred cover-painting in the Marches with its machinery still intact, photographed by Marc O. Manser. Although the statue of the Madonna it had originally hidden seems sadly to have vanished, it later allowed a rather unexpected cuckoo into its nest; however, its main purpose here is as an introduction to the operatically extra
The History Blog
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