WORLD FAMOUS WOOD SCULPTURES

Celebrated wood carvings can be seen in many of the best art museums and sculpture gardens around the world. Masterpieces include:

– The Shigir Idol (7500 BCE) Yekaterinburg, Russian Urals.

 

– Rottgen Pieta (1300 CE) Lime wood, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn.

 

– Mary Magadalene (1455) Bargello, Florence. By Donatello.

 

– St Wolfgang Altarpiece (1471-81) Church of Sankt Wolfgang. By Pacher.

– High Altar of St Mary’s Church, Krakow (1484) By Veit Stoss.

– Holy Blood Altar (1499-1504) Linden wood, Rothenburg. By Riemenschneider.

– The Head Of St Anne (1500) Limewood, Hermitage. By Riemenschneider.

– Mary Magdalene (“La Belle Allemande”) (1500) Limewood, Louvre. By Erhart.

– The Annunciation (1518) Church of St Lorenz in Nuremberg. By Veit Stoss.

– Descent from the Cross (1513) Victoria & Albert. By Jacopo Sansovino.

– Raphael and Tobias (1516) German National Museum Nuremberg. By Stoss.

– Altar of the Virgin (1613-16) Spruce/Limewood, Uberlingen. By Jorg Zurn.

– Woodcarving of a Cravat (1690) Victoria & Albert Museum. By Gibbons.

– Motherhood (1908) Wood, Warsaw National Museum. By Xawery Dunikowski.

– Construction of Volume Relations (1921) Mahogany, MOMA. Vantongerloo.

– Sky Cathedral (1958) MOMA, New York. By Louise Nevelson.

– Reclining Figure (1959-64) Elmwood, UK. By Henry Moore.

– Open Geometric Structure IV (1990) Wood, London. By Sol LeWitt.