Connecting Cultures: A World in Brooklyn - Dates: April 19, 2012
through date unknown - Collections: Arts of Africa , Arts of the
Pacific Islands , American Art , Arts of the Americas , Arts of
the Islamic World , Asian Art , Contemporary Art , Decorative
Arts , Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art , European
Art , Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art Frames have
multiple functions. They protect the work they surround, whether
a rare painting or drawing, or an inexpensive photograph, or a
piece of silvered glass mirror. They also present the work,
giving it importance and making a statement about it.
Historically, frames have often been more expensive than the
works of art they surround. This selection of frames dates from
the mid-1880s, and expresses the style known at the time as
“aesthetic.” For over two thousand years, followers of Buddhism
have been making images of the Buddha, representing the
historical person Siddhartha Gautama as both god and man, and in
various guises. Individually,