Talk:History of wood carving

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[edit] This is a typical 1911 treatise

I have tried to provide a few really beautiful examples of human wood figures from the "High Middle Ages" period. Someone who is at a museum curator level may be able to boil this down to half. I know about photographing museum art, but nothing about carving technique. I'll try to get more material. It would be a real challange to save a third or more of this classic "long-long" article.3dnatureguy 04:33, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Yeah: this sounds so Rudyard Kipling:

"The savage carver shows the same tendency to over-exalt his art by crowding on too much design as the more civilized craftsman..., his work as a rule is good and suitable, but when he takes to figure work his attempts do not usually meet with success"

Regards, Fbs.