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Luppitt, Devon
South face of this fascinating late Saxon/early Norman font, with so much complex imagery.
In 2018, the “Hermitage Amsterdam” hosted ‘Classic Beauties’, an exhibition on neoclassicism. Featuring over 60 works by 25 leading artists, it explored the influence of antiquity on 18th-century art.
Until 2022 it hosted exhibitions featuring art from the “Hermitage” in Saint Petersburg but eventually, the ties with Russia were severed, due to the Russian aggression in Ukraine. By fall 2023, the museum was renamed to “H’ART Museum”
#Amsterdam #classicism #18thcentury #classicbeauties #hanspetersom #amstelhof #exhibition #photo #urbanart #mokum #noir #xxx #art #history #stopthewar #bnw #photography #concretejungle #hartmuseum #heart #hart #neoclassicism #artiseverywhere #streetphotography #marmer # #beeld #wings #museum #museo #hermitage #arte #artwork #angel #blackandwhite #marble #18thcenturyart #stonecarving #escultura #sculpture
The Green Man on a building on Lancaster Terrace in Glasgow. Representing spring and rebirth, the Green Man appears on a surprisingly large number of buildings in the city, but this is one of the best I've found so far.
Launceston St Mary, Cornwall
Built 1511-24, wholly of granite, the hardest of stones. Exterior almost entirely decorated with carvings. This is probably the best example of how beautifully carved granite can be.
This #drawing (also called a #graffiti) of a #cat can be found in the #Cloisters of #SalisburyCathedral. It may have been made by a Durch prisoner of war in the late 17th century. There are several graffitis all over the #church, you can even take a tour to see them. (I didn't but stumbled across this fellow by chance)#Katze #KatzenContent #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfPixelFed #CatsOfFediverse #PixelCats #carving #Kreuzgang #Kirche #England #UK #Salisbury #Steinritzung #StoneCarvings #StoneCarving #inscriptions
Love the quality of the craftsmanship on this sandstone sculpture of Jesus as a child on the remains of the 1891 Pollokshields-Gelencairn Church in Glasgow. How on earth they managed to carve the folds in material quite so exquisitely, I really don't know.
Carved Column Bases.
Montjuïc National Palace.
#decoratedcolumns #stonecarving #columns
#montjuïc #montjuic #nationalpalacemuseum #barcelona #spain
Altarnun Cornwall
A magnificent piece of Norman decorative work on this font, with bearded faces of real character at each corner and traces of original colour.
Whilst I'm laid up with the lurgy I thought I'd put together selection of work from 2024.Losing Stanley was devasting but I know he had the best life. Making Nelson the Chameleon was great fun and being asked to carve an old friend in stone was a real privilege. Quite a bit of letter cutting this year including this house number for a front door!Two big jobs in the pipeline for 2025 & I hope to be able to mix it up with #Metalwork #StoneCarving #WoodCarving #Turning #LetterCutting & #Portraiture
@globalmuseum Isn’t there a history of stone carvers including self-images as hidden signatures?
This from the Senate Lobby in Canada’s Parliament buildings…
#gothic #carvedstone #stonecarving #church #roodscreen #troyes #legrandest #france
I love this sculpted plaque, complete with stone screwheads, on James Smith's 1860s Scots Baronial style Overtoun House near Dumbarton. However, the fact that two of the 'screwheads' are at right angles to the other two does rather make my brain itch!
'The Clare College Seal & the making of the Seal Sculpture' is now free to download from the booksite:
https://barnes1.net/seal/
Background in last year's
above 
#14thCentury #SealMatrix #WaxSeal #medieval #silversmith #StoneCarving #craftsmanship #OpenAccess #ClareCollege #CambridgeUniversity @medievodons @histodons @bookstodon
@fhardwig @overholt Was going through some photos and found this one on Cave Street, Bristol, UK 
A neater solution might have been to keep the letter sizes as they were, and go with the St. abbreviation with a portion of the postcode.
The stone can be seen here on google streetview: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Q3b8wvK744hV4BLk7
@blag @overholt This happens to carvers, too, as seen in this example from Stiftskirche Öhringen.
When the artist realized that space was running out, they gave everything to make the last line fit – in vain. Apparently they concluded: “Screw it, I’ll just do a nice fat ‘gt’ ligature next to it. Who cares about justification anyway?”
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hardwig/18364461154/
I love the intricately sculpted garlands of fruit which can be found on some of Glasgow's older buildings. In this case, it's beside the entrance to an Edwardian Baroque warehouse on Bell Street which was designed by Thomson and Sandilands, and was built in 1904.
I came across this beautiful and ornate building number on 16 Colquhoun Street in Helensburgh today. I particularly like the Disgorging Green Man at the bottom, a very appropriate symbol to come across as we move towards Spring.
#glasgow #helensburgh #greenman
#housenumber #architecture #sculpture #stonework #stonecarving #stonemasonry #spring
