An historical sketch of the art of sculpture in woodLibrary of the Fine Arts, 1835 |
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acquired admiration adorned altar alto-relievo ancient ANDREA BRUSTOLINI antiquity archi architect Architetti art of sculpture artist arts of design bas-reliefs beautiful boiserie Bologna building Cappella Maggiore carvings in wood cathedral cedar celebrated century chap chapel Chiesa chimney-pieces choir church cose Council of Trent CVIVS dedicated DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Diodorus Siculus distinguished eccellenti ecclesiastical edifices England engraved enriched Ercole Lelli erected excellence executed exercised existed extraordinary figures folio France genius Giovanni Grinling Gibbons heretics Holland houses idols images imagine INQVISITORE Italy John JOHN CALVIN legno little volume Luther Maggiore magnificent material Milizia monument multitude numerous object origin painting palaces Paris Pausanias Phidias Pittori Pitture possessed Protestant reformers pulpit representing richly carved richly ornamented sacred sculp sculptural art sculpture in wood Scultori similar singular specimens stalls statuary statues of wood stone superiority taste tecture temple THEODORE BEZA timber tion TRID Venice workmanship worship Zuinglius
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Page 8 - I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, to devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.
Page 9 - He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved.
Page 9 - The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.
Page 8 - And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Page 37 - Antiquités Nationales, ou Recueil de Monumens pour servir à l'Histoire générale et particulière de l'Empire...
Page 11 - ... they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall ; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.
Page 13 - And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove ; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
Page 26 - Designed to shew the Rise and Progress of Sculpture and Painting in England; to explain obscure and doubtful parts of history, and to preserve the Portraits of great and eminent personages.
Page 13 - For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
Page 11 - And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof : and he overlaid it with pure gold...