In the twelfth and thirteenth century, framing evolved from a method used simply to divine scenes by the Egyptians and Greeks into the artists carving out a hollow in the actual slab of wood, leaving a raised edge, or frame, behind. Then, the artists painted whatever image they chose on the flat portion of the […]
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I’m not going to lie to you. When I decided to write a blog today about frames, I was skeptical about what I would find. How interesting can the history of framing really be? How did we, as a civilization, start framing the human experience? Well, apparently, framing is another world altogether and classically an […]