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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 35

An illustration from Grinling Gibbons and the woodwork of his age (1648-1720), 1914, leaf 35
n the manner that we find in England as early as the date of the Laudianwoodwork at St. Johns College, Oxford (Fig. 4), and as late as Archbishop Juxons doors atCanterbury (Figs. 38 and 39). Again in Venice, in the choir of San Giorgio Maggiore, wefind on the top of the entablature of tlie stalls… … FIG. 14.—PULPIT, ALL HALLOWS BARKING, 19 of strapwork, flower swags and winged amorini heads, exceedingly like English work of thesecond half of the seventeenth century. Such work in Italy was transitional between thepurer style of the Renaissance that closed with the sixteenth century and the more…

Gibbons, Grinling, 1648-1721 · Wood-carving · Interior decoration

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