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History of wood carving. A Chinese wooden Bodhisattva, Jin dynasty (1115–1234), Shanghai Museum. Wood carving is one of the oldest arts of humankind. Wooden spears from the Middle Paleolithic, such as the Clacton Spear, reveal how humans have engaged in utilitarian woodwork for millennia. However, given the relatively rapid rate at which wood ...
Tilman Riemenschneider (c. 1460 – 7 July 1531) was a German woodcarver and sculptor active in Würzburg from 1483. He was one of the most prolific and versatile sculptors of the transition period between the Late Gothic, to which he essentially belonged, and Northern Renaissance art, a master in limewood and stone.
Netherlandish, early 16th century. Height: 3 cm (1.2 in). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gothic boxwood miniatures are very small Christian -themed wood sculptures produced during the 15th and 16th centuries in the Low Countries, at the end of the Gothic period and during the emerging Northern Renaissance. [2]
Detail of the main altar of the Miraflores Charterhouse, Spain. Gil de Siloé.Polychrome wood, 1496–1499. Gothic sculpture was a sculpture style that flourished in Europe during the Middle Ages, from about mid-12th century to the 16th century, [Note 1] evolving from Romanesque sculpture and dissolving into Renaissance sculpture and Mannerism.
The Seth House in Albuquerque, New Mexico – Built in 1882. Carpenter Gothic, also sometimes called Carpenter's Gothic or Rural Gothic, is a North American architectural style-designation for an application of Gothic Revival architectural detailing and picturesque massing applied to wooden structures built by house-carpenters.
Late 12th century-16th century. Gothic art was a style of medieval art that developed in Northern France out of Romanesque art in the 12th century AD, led by the concurrent development of Gothic architecture. It spread to all of Western Europe, and much of Northern, Southern and Central Europe, never quite effacing more classical styles in Italy.
English Gothic is an architectural style that flourished from the late 12th until the mid-17th century. [1][2] The style was most prominently used in the construction of cathedrals and churches. Gothic architecture's defining features are pointed arches, rib vaults, buttresses, and extensive use of stained glass.
Wooden Altar of Veit Stoss at St Mary's Church in Kraków Blind Veit Stoss with granddaughter by Jan Matejko (1865), National Museum in Warsaw. Veit Stoss (also: Veit Stoß and Stuoss; German pronunciation: [faɪt ʃtoːs]; Polish: Wit Stwosz; Latin: Vitus Stoss; before 1450 – about 20 September 1533) was a leading German sculptor, mostly working with wood, whose career covered the ...