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

This book reveals how 'marginal' aspects of Graeco-Roman art play a fundamental role in shaping and interrogating ancient and modern visual culture.

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

This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience with the help of ancient material, exploring our responses to both narratives and images.

"delightful, readable, and scholarly. The volume is profusely and well illustrated, each art example is clearly labelled and dated, and superb supplementary ref