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Wood sculpture (1911)

Maskell, Alfred · New York : Putnam · leaf 174

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ant is absent,and it is not a reading lesson. The Kensington group(Plate IX.), if by Riemenschneider, may be quite late indate: the costume and stuffed headdress pointing tosome time between 1495 and 1520. It was at one timeattributed to Georg Syrlin of Ulm, and indeed it is noteasy to dissociate… … RIEMENSCHN EIDER carving of the late Gothic period, the Kensington group,by whomever executed, is unsurpassed, and must beranked among the masterpieces of the art. The figuresare human beings, portraits, it may be said perhaps,from life models. The drapery no longer conceals theadmirably posed…

Wood-carving · Decoration and ornament

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