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

MASTERS AND MASTERPIECES: Eyckian paintings 241 68. For her doctoral thesis, Susan Jones has conducted extensive research on the frames and supports of the works of the Eyckian Group. The drawing of the joint of the Vera Effigies , of a type we have never seen before, has been made with her collaboration. Fig. 122. Grooved frames. Construction and mouldings of the frames of: a. Van Eyck brothers’ Ghent altarpieces. b. Virgin and Child with Canon Joris van der Paele. Certain grooved frames have complex lip-joints, with a peg inserted parallel to the painted surface and visible on the side of the frame ( Vera Effigies ). 68 The construction of the frames of the upper altarpiece in Ghent is different from that of the lower altarpiece. It seems that the work was shared between the carpenters who crafted the upper part and the joiners who did the simpler construction of the lower frames. 128.5 1432 a 157.1 218.2 1436 b 176 141