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Free ThinkingPatricia Duncker, Adrienne Mayor on the Amazons, Harriet Walter and Guy PaulFrames in Focus: Sansovino Frames

Frames in Focus: Sansovino Frames is on display at the National Gallery, London from Wednesday 1 April until Sunday 13 September 2015

  • A Sansovino frame with well-preserved original gilding, perhaps from the 1580s, Frame: 136 × 159 cm
  • Possibly by Titian, The Music Lesson, about 1535
  • A carved and partially gilded Sansovino frame, 1560-80, Frame: 75 × 100 cm
  • Titian, Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro, about 1528

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  • Free Thinking—Patricia Duncker, Adrienne Mayor on the Amazons, Harriet Walter and Guy Paul

    Patricia Duncker talks about George Eliot, and Adrienne Mayor discusses Amazonian women.

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