Examples of household taste . e interested in wood-carving, the Centennial Exhibitionfurnished valuable opportunities of studying the subject. The most noticeable 394 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. collection was in the Italian Court, and our readers already are familiar witha number of the finest examples in that exhibit. On page 387 we engraveanother one of these works, a Carved Bedstead, manufactured by Ferrie &Bartolozzi, of Florence. Like all the other Italian carving shown, the charac-teristic of this work is an extraordinary skill in the use of the chisel. Theartist works with an e
Examples of household taste . e interested in wood-carving, the Centennial Exhibitionfurnished valuable opportunities of studying the subject. The most noticeable 394 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. collection was in the Italian Court, and our readers already are familiar witha number of the finest examples in that exhibit. On page 387 we engraveanother one of these works, a Carved Bedstead, manufactured by Ferrie &Bartolozzi, of Florence. Like all the other Italian carving shown, the charac-teristic of this work is an extraordinary skill in the use of the chisel. Theartist works with an ease and certainty that make it appear almost impossible that he is treatinga material so hardas wood. To lookat the little figuresthat adorn this bed-stead, one wouldalmost imagine thatthey had been mod-eled in clay, so per-fect are they inoutline and the panels, also,and in the enrich-ments of the pillars,the frame-work andthe frieze to thehead-board, we notethe same consum-mate skill. The ma-terial from which. Faience Vase: Italian Court. this superb ex-ample of wood-carvino- is made iswalnut, a wood thatis fine in grain andvery artist hastherefore been en-abled to carve init designs of won-derful minutenessof detail. In thefoot-board there isa medallion, sur-rounded by scroll-work and ara-besques, in whichis depicted a Venusborne upon thewaves, which could hardly be surpassed in metal for elegance and perfection of execution. Thesame may be said of the panels in the head-board, the central one of whichrepresents Cupid and Psyche, and, in^a less degree, the remark applies to theupper panel with its armorial bearings. In no country in Europe was the influence of the Renaissance more keenlyfelt than in Italy, and nowhere has the present art-revival, in its restricted formof wood-carving, been marked with better results than in the same the beginning of the sixteenth century the wealth and liberality of the great INDUSTRIAL ART 395 noblemen, s
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