CFP: Drawing the Frame
December 22 2025
Picture: Louvre via The Frame Blog
Posted by Adam Busiakeiwicz:
News via The Frame Blog that the 2026 Gernsheim Study Days, hosted in Rome, are inviting papers on research that focuses on connections between framing and drawing in the early modern period.
According to the blog post:
We invite papers that treat frames and framing, broadly conceived, as they relate to drawing. Possible topics and questions that we hope to address include:
– Frame design and drawing for the decorative arts
– The role of frames and framing in the making or changing of meaning
– Inscriptions on drawings or, later, passepartouts, as a form of framing
– Marginalia as paratextual frames
– How the frame in drawing complicates our understanding of the frame
– The frame as mediator of drawings
– The frame as a metapictorial device
The conference will run in May 2026 and application documents must be submitted by 16th January 2026.
