…three artists, three wood carvings, one camera…
Ercole Lelli 1702-1766: The wood carving of this écorché supports the canopy of the professor’s chair in the Teatro Anatomica in the Archiginnasio of Bologna, Italy.
Grinling Gibbons 1648-1742: Regarded as the finest wood carver in England. This lime wood carving is from the Wren Library in Trinity College, Cambridge, England
Bill Read 1920-1998: The Raven and the First Men carved from a giant block of laminated yellow cedar and displayed in the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada
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