Architectural Carving
Architectural Carving

Author: Mike Burton

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated

Published: 2004-03

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781402713842

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A how-to guide to architectural projects that are within reach of any budget and level of experience, with practical tips on how to arrange the work area for this special kind of woodworking, practice the best hand and power carving techniques, work from patterns, photos, and models, and take little-known shortcuts to save time and make money.

Carving Architectural Detail in Wood
Carving Architectural Detail in Wood

Author: Frederick Wilbur

Publisher: GMC Publications

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13:

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"A primer for woodcarvers in the vocabulary of classical ornamentation, and the practical skills needed to carve it."--"Woodshop News." "Blueprints are provided for moldings, volutes, rosettes, and capitals. The geometry of these designs is celebrated as the author brings these ancient motifs into making present-day objects such as picture frames, mantelpieces, and gateposts."--"Chip Chats."

Hellenistic Architectural Sculpture
Hellenistic Architectural Sculpture

Author: Pamela A. Webb

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9780299149802

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She finds that figural sculptures adorn structures at every level from the ground to the roof, and display a wide variety of motifs on such architectural elements as columns, walls, entablatures, pediments, and cornices. 142 illustrations of Hellenistic monuments - temples, altars, cult buildings, heroa, theaters, bouleuteria, stoas, gymnasia, and houses - and their sculptured adornment complement the author's descriptions and analyses.

Animals in Stone
Animals in Stone

Author: Robert Arthur King

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2009-12-15

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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A delightful collection of creatures that adorn New York City buildings. Companion to Faces in Stone, this is a gift-sized and attractively priced book for architecture buffs. It features more than one hundred imaginative sculptural details, from the domestic to the fantastic, with a brief introduction and contextual photos to show the building on which each ornament appears, the addresses, and transportation information.

Greek Architecture and Its Sculpture
Greek Architecture and Its Sculpture

Author: Ian Jenkins

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780674023888

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From Athens and Arcadia on one side of the Aegean Sea and from Ionia, Lycia, and Karia on the other, this book brings together some of the great monuments of classical antiquity--among them two of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the later temple of Artemis at Ephesos and the Mausoleum at Halikarnassos. With 250 photographs and specially commissioned line drawings, the book comprises a monumental narrative of the art and architecture that gave form, direction, and meaning to much of Western culture.

Romanesque Architectural Sculpture
Romanesque Architectural Sculpture

Author: Meyer Schapiro

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2006-11-15

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0226750639

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Meyer Schapiro (1904-96), renowned for his critical essays on 19th and 20th century painting, also played a decisive role as a young scholar in defining the style of art and architecture known as Romanesque. This is a transcribed and edited version of his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures.

Figures in Stone: Architectural Sculpture in New York City
Figures in Stone: Architectural Sculpture in New York City

Author: Robert Arthur King

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2017-05-02

Total Pages: 955

ISBN-13: 0393712443

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A delightful collection of quirky faces, figures, and creatures that adorn New York City buildings. This gift-sized and attractively priced book for architecture buffs features more than two hundred imaginative sculptural details, from the domestic to the fantastic, with a brief introduction and contextual photos to show the building on which each ornament appears, the addresses, and transportation information. Contains the complete contents of King’s Faces in Stone and Animals in Stone, available for the first time in one decisive volume.

Sculpture
Sculpture

Author: Louis Slobodkin

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1973-01-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780486229607

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Offers advice on using tools and constructing armatures as well as shaping human figures, portrait heads, and bas reliefs from clay, plaster, wood, stone, and metal