On June 14th Pandolfini is happy to present the annual and awaited appointment with the sale "The art of decorating paintings: frames from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century". A unique opportunity to purchase an object which, if it already possesses an intrinsic artistic value as the result and synthesis between refined technical mastery and the exuberant imagination of the carver, can also create a dialogical relationship with the painting it contains, isolating it from the wall and accentuating its importance. There will be examples of international production, but the undisputed protagonists will always be the Italian frames from all the regional schools. The main actor will therefore be the carved and gilded wood in the shape of articulated volutes, or aedicule, or even the most imaginative and varied geometric, vegetable, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic shapes. The wooden material will certainly also be present in other interesting guises: in ebonized form or even painted with monochrome or polychrome lacquers, often aimed at imitating marble.