Art in frame. Interpreting frames in the sixteenth-century Low Countries. Ghent University
Today, many museum visitors and art historians alike pay little attention to the frames of artworks,
and they are not inclined to attribute a particular meaning to them. In early modern Europe in
contrast, elaborated frames were widely diffused. There seems to exist a gap between the way
frames are valued today and roughly 400 years ago. It is this issue that the project will address
when formulating the following ...