Talk:Linenfold

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An entry from Linenfold appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 15 May 2007.

There is probably a good discussion in Penelope Eames, Furniture in England , France and the Netherlands from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century (London: Furniture History Society), 1977. I don't have it myself. --Wetman 23:55, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I mentioned Gibbons because I can't think of an earlier example! -- ALoan (Talk) 00:13, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Since's he's fully baroque in his style, I felt that his name would prove confusing. --Wetman 00:16, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps something like "developing into the elaborate Baroque woodcarvings best exemplified by Grinling Gibbons? Do we have any articles on notable Renaissance woodcarvers? -- ALoan (Talk) 10:02, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Not easy to trace any development, because joiners were trained separately from carvers. Renaissance woodworkers are usually simply artisans, unless they rise to become sculptors. The exceptions are intarsia workers, often travelling monks like Fra Giovanni da Verona (1457-1525) Fra Damiano Zambelli da Bergamo (1480-1549), et al. The Studiolo at Gubbio, the one at Urbino, the choirstalls at Todi, the chapel from Bâtie d'Urfé at the Metropolitan... These craftsmen trained in a different tradition: no connection there either to linenfold panelling. Interesting that even the earliest emigrants to the English colonies didn't carry linenfold-planing traditions, so completely had the style died out by the early C17; instead, some wavy-mouldings, in the tradition of late C16 Antwerp ebony picture-frames and cabinet mouldings. But it would take a lot of research to dig up the references not to make it "original research" don't you know... --Wetman 10:29, 16 May 2007 (UTC)