“…The frame often became an essential part of the artwork, not only physically, but also conceptually, in that it carried texts. And these texts helped the viewer in 'reading' the image, so much so that text, frame, and picture were equally structural parts of the artwork (Kiilerich, 2001). Ever since antiquity, aesthetics and critical theory have employed the multifaceted term parergon (para, 'beside', and ergon, 'work') to indicate the metalinguistic affordances of non-propositional devices such as van Eyck's frame inscriptions, which extend far beyond the role of accessory by-work, subordinate embellishments or filling supplements to an artwork's main subject.…”