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  2. History of wood carving - Wikipedia

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    Wood-carving examples of the first eleven centuries of CE are rare due to the fact that woods do decay easily in 1,000 years. The carved panels of the main doors of St Sabina on the Aventine Hill, Rome, are very interesting specimens of early Christian relief sculpture in wood, dating, as the dresses show, from the 5th century. The doors are ...

  3. Wood carving - Wikipedia

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    Wood carving. Wood carving is a form of woodworking by means of a cutting tool (knife) in one hand or a chisel by two hands or with one hand on a chisel and one hand on a mallet, resulting in a wooden figure or figurine, or in the sculptural ornamentation of a wooden object. The phrase may also refer to the finished product, from individual ...

  4. Cook Islands art - Wikipedia

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    Wood carving is a common art form in the Cook Islands. Sculpture in stone is much rarer although there are some excellent carvings in basalt by Mike Tavioni. The proximity of islands in the southern group helped produce a homogeneous style of carving but which had special developments in each island. Rarotonga is known for its fisherman's gods ...

  5. Francesco Pianta - Wikipedia

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    Francesco Pianta, also Francesco Pianta the Younger of Venice (1634-1692), was an Italian sculptor. Pianta grew up within a family of stone carvers , and lived and worked in Venice . He primarily carved wood, and carved a series of wooden panels with allegorical figures for the Upper Hall of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco between 1657-58.

  6. Carl Johan Trygg - Wikipedia

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    Carl Johan Trygg. Carl Johan Trygg, formally Carl Johan Thrygg [1], also knowns as C. J. Trygg, woodcarver, (1887 – 1954) was one of the recognized masters of twentieth century woodcarving, most famous for Scandinavian flat-plane style of woodcarving. Between C. J. Trygg and his sons they carved over 10,000 figures.

  7. Renaissance sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the acceptance of the new style coming from Italy was late and the Gothic decorations were still maintained for a long time. In the realization of altarpieces, choir stalls and religious furnishings including sculpture, wood carving was used, in which Renaissance elements were elaborated in the style of those made in the Lombard part of ...

  8. Antonio Vitali - Wikipedia

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    Antonio Vitali was born in 1909 to middle class Italian and Swiss parents. He studied under the well-known Swiss sculptor, Otto Münch, and at the Bauhaus-inspired Zurich School of the Applied Arts (Kunstgewerbeschule) in the late-1920s. After living the Bohemian artist's life and studying at private art academies in Paris in the 1930s, he ...

  9. Tilman Riemenschneider - Wikipedia

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    Tilman Riemenschneider (c. 1460 – 7 July 1531) was a German woodcarver and sculptor active in Würzburg from 1483. He was one of the most prolific and versatile sculptors of the transition period between the Late Gothic, to which he essentially belonged, and Northern Renaissance art, a master in limewood and stone.

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