Frames and supports in 15th and 16th-century Southern Netherlandish painting

CHAPTER X 222 38. “Da die alten Beschläge, die die Flügel untereinander und mit dem Mittelbilde verbanden, nämlich mit der Zeit schadhaft geworden seyn mochten, so dasz man sie durch die sehr plumpen und rohen zu ersetzen nöthig fand, welche man jetzt noch daran wahrnimmt, […].” Quoted from Coremans 1953, 47. with time, it was deemed necessary to replace them with the very heavy and course ones which can still be seen on them.” 38 1 1 4 2 2 2 2 3 3 Fig. 113. A 19th century photograph taken in Berlin shows metallic reinforcements nailed to the outside of the frames. Reinforcements were nailed next to the original hinges (1), in two stages (2 and 3), both probably in the 16th century.