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This book discusses old time wooden sculpture
history and techniques. From the introduction:
Hardly any other division of the arts covers so wide a field as
that which is open before us in the study of the use of wood in
its decorative applications of every kind. The history of all
the arts in all countries from the earliest Egyptian times ; the
schools of painting, of engraving, and of sculpture in other
materials ; the goldsmiths', metalworkers', and even the
potters' crafts ; church lore and liturgiology ; the varieties
of furniture of every description, ecclesiastical and domestic ;
the science and art of coins and medals ; symbolism, natural
history, botany, even heraldry these things and more, perhaps,
confront us from time to time, and present points of contact
which cannot be ignored. In endeavoring, therefore, to treat so
comprehensive a subject, in a single volume, I cannot but be
aware that I lay myself open to the criticism of specialists in
all the many divisions with which I may have the hardihood to
connect it, and I can scarcely expect to avoid the numerous
pitfalls.
After about the twelfth century the quantity of available
material is so great that it seemed to me that the only plan
would be to restrict the general scope in the main to figure
sculpture and to certain decorative work in relief, and to
consider what examples could be selected which would best
illustrate the evolution of the art and the influences exerted
by one country on another. It may be asked why such and such a
figure or other work has been included, or why such another one
has been passed over. The only answer is that a choice had
to be made. It was necessary, also, to draw a line somewhere,
and I have done this generally speaking at the end of the Gothic
period. Whole geographical divisions Russia, China, Japan, and
the East have, perforce also, been left untouched.
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