The Work of Grinling Gibbons
Geoffrey W. Beard • University of Chicago Press • ISBN-13 978‑0226039923
The Work of Grinling Gibbons
Geoffrey W. Beard • University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 0226039927 · ISBN-13: 978‑0226039923 · 1990 · Hardcover
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This magnificently illustrated book documents the career of the virtuoso seventeenth-century sculptor, the finest woodcarver ever to appear in Europe. Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721) combined in his work naturalism – it was said he could carve a leaf barely thicker than the original – with a lively and graceful composition that is unmistakably Baroque. His carvings – in wood and stone – are to be found in St. Paul’s Cathedral, Hampton Court, Windsor Castle, Kensington Palace, Blenheim Palace, and in other country houses and churches throughout England and Scotland.
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