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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;808 raver, post: 696223, member: 4654&quot;]<a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O368769/frame-frame/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O368769/frame-frame/" rel="nofollow">http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O368769/frame-frame/</a></p><p>The Museum purchased this frame as a new item in 1861, to provide an example of modern Italian carving. Although the maker is not known, it bears many similarities with the work of Luigi Frullini in Florence, and of the studios of Angelo Lombardi and Pietro Giusti in Sienna.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nineteenth-century Italian carvers were inspired by Renaissance masters, such as the Sienese carver and <i>intarsia</i> worker Antonio Barili (1453-1516) and his nephew Giovanni, who made a frame also in the collection of the V&amp;A (926-1900). The form of this frame was probably taken directly from a Renaissance object such as an oval mirror frame now in the collection of the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.</p><p><br /></p><p>Renaissance motifs of scrolling foliage interlaced with mythical beasts, birds and insects gave free range to the imagination and provided a vehicle through which a range of skills, such as the technique of undercutting, could be displayed by the carver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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