Resumen de A Famous Frame the Arrangement of the 'Arma Christi' in Counter Reformation prints
During the later sixteenth and early seventeenth century there were published in Northern Europe a substantial number of prints in which the instruments of Christ's passion -the so-called "arma Christi"- were prominently arranged as a frame motif. The essay addresses the question of the hierarchy that obtains between frame and central image, aesthetically and in terms of subject matter, and discusses the theological reasoning that underlies this form of display.
