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2 unusual facts about Wood carving


Ernest Remnant

Remnant was also renowned as a fine wood carver, with his home in Harrow depicting carved scenes in the Battle of Hastings.

St Twrog's Church, Maentwrog

The vestry window "Son of Consolation" is in memory of William Edward Oakeley, benefactor of the parish, with whose help the church was restored in 1896, his wife Mary Oakeley executed the beautiful carvings.


Cabot's Pueblo Museum

Waokiye is the twenty-seventh sculpture in a series of 74 giant Native American heads, collectively known as the Trail of the Whispering Giants, carved during a twenty-one-year period by artist Peter Wolf Toth.

Franz Ludwig Catel

He began his artistic career by carving in wood, and then designed book illustrations, including, in 1799, ten plates for Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea.


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Don Potter

As well as wood carving, Potter started to work in stone as well and met Jacob Epstein (who had studied with Auguste Rodin in Paris).

Grith Fyrd

He also admired the leisure activities of the men - Morris dancing, wood-carving, folk-singing and adult education.

Ugo De Censi

In 1979 he founded the first school for wood carving, dedicated to Don Bosco, who recruits children based on their poverty and good will.

Vincenzo Migliaro

After learning the art of wood carving at courses held by the Società Centrale Operaia Napoletana and working in the studio of Stanislao Lista, Migliaro enrolled in 1875 at the Naples Institute of Fine Arts, where his masters included Domenico Morelli.

Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Treasures of Knowledge

At the start of the game, Carmen steals a rare Franco-Italian edition of The Travels of Marco Polo (which conveniently has the title written on the cover in English) and, as the game progresses, she goes on to steal a Māori wood carving, Incan Quipus and other seemingly random items.