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Wow!
“The possibility of such a triumph of the chisel had not before entered into our conception. Ordinary language must ever fail to do justice to the rare artistic skill, and to the emotions it produces in the beholder”
An 1856 review of The Veiled Virgin by Giovanni Strazza.
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Being a bit of a woodcarver myself and having seen one of the examples; he carved a number of them, of his stupendous virtuosity with wood carving tools in V&A in London, I would like to add Grinling Gibbons to the honour list.
I know, I know; different material and a quite different subject but my mouth was agape at the skill needed to carve it when I saw it in the flesh
