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Tag Archives: Stone Carving
Drabble does ornament
I’m close to the end of Margaret Drabble’s The Ice Age. I posted a short while ago some passages on the attitudes of developers in postwar Britain (“Inside Drabble’s developer“). Now the father of her developer protagonist has died and … Continue reading
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Tagged Cathedral, classical architecture, Craftsmenship, Margaret Drabble, Ornament, Religion, Stone Carving, The Ice Age
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The sculpture of place
Here are shots of the work of Matthew Simmonds, a British sculptor who lives in Pietrasanta, Italy. Beautiful! (Here is his website.) Hats off to Roy Lewis, who sent photos to the TradArch list, eliciting more sent by others. I … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art and design, Photography
Tagged Italy, Matthew Simmonds, Sculptors, Sculpture, Stone Carving, Walter Arnold, William Hazlitt
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