pictureframe
See also: picture frame
English
editNoun
editpictureframe (plural pictureframes)
- Alternative form of picture frame.
- 1994, Wayne Craven, American Art: History and Culture, Madison, Wis.: Brown & Benchmark, →ISBN, page 88:
- Lavish carving became a major component in Philadelphia furniture and interiors, as seen in the parlor of the Powel House (Fig. 6.14)—on Chippendale chairs, sofa, piecrust teatables, the grandfather clock, the pictureframe, fireplace ornamentation, and architectural decorations.
- 1997, Adrian Belton, transl., edited by Rosanna Pavoni, Reviving the Renaissance: The Use and Abuse of the Past in Nineteenth-Century Italian Art and Decoration (Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture), Cambridge, Cambs, New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 124 and 217:
- From wood to astonishing accomplishments in the intaglio of furniture and pictureframes, from cast iron to lace, from alabaster to semi-precious stones to so-called ‘Florence mosaic’, Tuscan craftsmanship based its commercial success, its true ‘Risorgenza’, on the models of the Renaissance. […] Highly successful, for example, was […] the iron pictureframe with gold and silver damascening exhibited by Luciano De Paoli of Vicenza on the same occasion; […]
- 2016, Maurice Curtis, Temple Bar: A History, Dublin: The History Press Ireland, →ISBN, page 173:
- There were also other occupations, including jewellers, bootmakers, tailors, gilders and pictureframe makers, printers, robe makers, booksellers, and printers.