Grinling Gibbons and the woodwork of his age (1648-1720) (1914)
Tipping, H. Avray (Henry Avray), 1855-1933 · London : "Country life" and George Newnes ; New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 108
figure, idealised and conventionalised,reappears in every shape and form throughout Italian decorations, Gibbons can never bringhimself to do more than scatter winged cherubim about his church work, and occasionallyintroduce it in his room decorations, as at Petworth (Fig. 184). Even this is a… … GRINLING GIBBONS AND THE WOODWORK OF HIS AGE. found there of leaf, flower and fruit, strung and wreathed them together with infinite skill and graceand hung them up on nails as a kind of superbly artistic Christmas decoration. But as these wouldnot last, instead of hanging up the thing itself he…
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