Back on 12 June at Pandolfini, the annual appointment with the catalogue "The art of decorating pictures: frames from the Renaissance to the 19th century".

A unique opportunity to purchase an object that, while in itself possessing an intrinsic artistic value, the result of the synthesis between refined technical mastery and the exuberant imagination of the carver, can also create a dialectical and dynamic relationship with the painting it contains, isolating it from the wall and accentuating its singular importance.

There will be no lack of examples of international production, but the undisputed protagonist will always be Italian mastery from the 16th to the 19th century in all the artistic declinations developed in the various regional schools. The main protagonist will therefore be wood carved and gilded to form articulated volutes, or to create the most imaginative and varied geometric, vegetal, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic shapes. Wooden material will also be present in other interesting guises: in ebonised form combined with semi-precious stones or even painted with monochrome or polychrome lacquers, often intended to imitate marble.