Marshall asks what it means for these authors to view the world through the frame of art.

The frames of classical art are often seen as marginal to the images that they surround. Traditional art history has tended to view framing devices as supplemen

Published to accompany exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 8/11/96 - 9/2/97.

The book is a comprehensive phenomenological study of meanings that are unique to the major visual art forms.

Frame Work explores how framing devices in the art of Renaissance Italy respond, and appeal, to viewers in their social, religious, and political context.