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#goldenmonday III - What are subject frames?

What do certain strange shapes carved into the frames represent? Deformed faces, monstrous figures, flowers, claws, scales, eagle wings; sometimes the answer is in the painting itself.

Credits

E. Satie, Gymnopedie No 1 by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

Developed by Sofia Zymnis.
Scripts: Sofia Zymnis e Clara Fiammetti.
Voice-over:  Clara Fiammetti.

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