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For the woodcarvers among you

Postby chataigner » 22 Aug 2016, 15:51

Carved in the 15th C, the face on the end of the big carving is reputed to be a self portrait of the carver.
Abbaye de Moutier d'Ahun, Creuse, France.

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Re: For the woodcarvers among you

Postby Mike G » 22 Aug 2016, 19:46

Bl**dy hell! Work like this never ceases to amaze me.
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Re: For the woodcarvers among you

Postby TrimTheKing » 22 Aug 2016, 20:20

Lovely. There was a beautiful and huge carved piece in Warwick Castle when we stayed there a couple of weekends ago but my phone memory was full and I couldn't get any pics.

Found this one online http://www.britainexpress.com/counties/ ... 012007.htm

It is called the Kenilworth Buffet and is about 15' wide and ridiculously detailed. Definitely worth a visit.

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For the woodcarvers among you

Postby Rod » 22 Aug 2016, 20:33

Nice

There's some excellent carvings in the 14C Choir Stalls in our local cathedral - must go and take some photos.

As an aside I've been watching the Stately Homes
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Covered Burghley House and Castle Howard so far - amazing workmanship. They also relate the current building costs - each would cost £1.8billion to build now. The owners were spending the equivalent of £6.3m/yr and were employing the best people of that period.


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Re: For the woodcarvers among you

Postby DaveL » 22 Aug 2016, 21:08

Huge amount of work in that, but it's interesting that the work is not lots of repeating elements, stops the carver getting bored and losing concentration. Also no one will say the panels don't match. Just think about the sharpening that had to be done, carving tools need to be incredibly well sharpened.
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Re: For the woodcarvers among you

Postby justaskin » 23 Aug 2016, 06:32

Hi Dave

Really great work, I dread to think the real cost in todays terms. Obviously a bit beyond the chain saw method :text-goodpost:

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Re: For the woodcarvers among you

Postby Pinch » 23 Aug 2016, 19:49

Nice find David. Beautifully stunning work. I wish this work was still called for today.
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Re: For the woodcarvers among you

Postby kirkpoore1 » 23 Aug 2016, 22:44

I particularly like the animals and people on the misericord dividers. I've mostly seen British misericords, and the divider shape is generally different so that you can't carve standing figures there.

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Re: For the woodcarvers among you

Postby Andyp » 24 Aug 2016, 07:55

Pinch wrote:Nice find David. Beautifully stunning work. I wish this work was still called for today.



Indeed makes one realise how much money there was back then. Are the skills around today to do that type of carving? I bet yuo would like a commission like that Paul.
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Re: For the woodcarvers among you

Postby Rod » 24 Aug 2016, 09:30

I think the skills are still around - there's been lots of restoration work carried out especially to stonework.
There's been a few National Trust houses that have been badly damaged by fires which have been sympathetically restored to their former glory.
The artisans of old were paid piecework - those wood carvers must have been paid top rate.

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