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Grinling Gibbons and the Golden Age of Woodcarving
Grinling Gibbons, the most celebrated woodcarver of all times, developed an extraordinary style of realistic foliage carving in limewood. He was a man of his time, born in Rotterdam to English parents, trained in the Netherlands and, as many artists and craftsmen of his generation, moved to England, where he embarked on a spectacular career working on some of England's most iconic buildings. This book, the result of extensive new research, puts Gibbons in the Anglo-Dutch context of the second half of the seventeenth century, shedding new light on his origin, and that of his style, and the work of his contemporaries in the Netherlands and Britain. The book emphasises the importance of Rotterd...
Revelations
The year 2000, a bench-mark date in Christian civilization, prompted researchers to offer a scholarly look at the significance of religion in our civilization, past and present. The religious factor is examined from various scientific viewpoints--ethnological, historical, sociological, archaeological. It is seen that God, or whatever one might prefer to call him, or her, has historically assumed many different shapes and sizes in our civilization and that his cultural presence has impacted significantly upon our culture, art, and way of thinking.
