Join us on Sept. 25 and 26 via Zoom for an online conference on the history and conservation of frames , co-organized by the AGO’s curatorial and conservation departments to promote inter- and multi-disciplinary dialogue. Advanced tickets are required. Free via Zoom.

The AGO is home to an important collection of historic frames, and a project is currently underway at AGO to catalogue and conserve this collection to make the collection more accessible for study and use. In light of this project, the symposium aims to present current research that contextualizes frames in their many incarnations, including research on frame makers, framing traditions, frames’ afterlives, frame collections, pairings of frames to paintings, artists’ frames, the commercial history of framing, and related topics.

Image: Italian Tabernacle Frame, 1600s, tortoiseshell, bone or ivory and wood. Gift from a private collector (94/994).