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Historical Archive: Wood about 1510 to present

Most panel paintings are indexed as painting rather than wood.


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oak altarpiece 1500-25, St. Michael's, Hildesheim, which has its own pages
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Cross fr. Red Field Monastery, wood, c.1500-50, which has its own page, Novgorod AM
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Holy Kindred with Emerentia (mother of Anna, Emerentia Selbviert) from Badersleben, polychromed wood, Thuringia or Saxony c.1510, loan from St. Peter and Paul, Badersleben, DMP SK71. For other views see DMP.
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Death riding a lion, wood, 1513, from a clock with moving figures at Kloster Heilsbronn, BNM MA3450
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wooden ceiling of Leo X (1513-27), Lateran Baptistery octagon, Rome. The baptistery octagon and narthex have their own interior page.
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Saint Adrian of Nicomedia, wood and polychrome, Flemish c.1515, IMA 45.8. For other views see IMA.
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Good Thief (Dysmas) from a Crucifixion, walnut, School of Kalkar (Germany) c.1520, UMMA 1976/1.233. This work has its own page.
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Virgin and Child (wood?), Jan van Steffeswert 1524, with later clouds and beams, Aachen cathedral choir. The cathedral has its own pages.
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Meerbeck carver, Passion c.1525-30, North Paradise, Cathedral, Hildesheim, which has its own pages with details
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Palmesel, wood, Swabia c.1530, SMBByz 7710, which has its own page
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Passion scenes, poss. Arnt van Tricht, oak predella fr. Kalkar c.1530-40, Schn A859. For detail see Schn.
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marquetry on archiepiscopal throne, Giovanni Battista del Cervelliera 1536, int. Pisa cathedral, which has its own pages
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pew of Archbishop Pimen, 1560, Novgorod Cathedral, which has its own interior page
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marriage chest (cassone) with river god, wood, Italy last third of 16th c., MAAB
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1573 wooden ceiling, Lateran Baptistery narthex, Rome. The baptistery octagon and narthex have their own interior page.
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coffered ceiling, design 1596, Pisa cathedral, which has its own pages
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Crucifixion, Gaspar Núñez Delgado 1599; ivory, ebony, mahogany, silver, and polychrome, IMA 1995.24. For details see IMA.
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Entombment (dead Christ tended by angels), wood and paint, Navarrese sculptor c.1600, MFAB 83.1
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parlor with 17th-c. wainscoting and ex-votos, Lille, Hospice Comtesse, which has its own page with more views and other 17th-c. rooms.
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wooden chest, 17th-c. Flemish, Hospice Comtesse Lille Y5. For additional views see l’Hospice Comtesse.
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linen press, oak, 17th c., Lille 2006.3.1 Hospice Comtesse, which has its own page with another view.
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Crucifixion: corpus 17th c., Vierge Ouvrante, polychromed wood, 1375-1425, Cluny Cl. 12060, which has its own page.
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Mother of God of the Sign (Platytéra) icon, wood/gesso/glass/metal/tempera/gilding, 17th c., Novgorod AM. For detail and scale view see Novgorod.
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prob. wood: pew of King Christian IV c.1600, Roskilde cathedral, which has its own page
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baptismal font with 1621 wood cover, Sion Cathedral, chapel of the ossuary. This building has its own page.
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Sion Cathedral pulpit, Hans Georg Miller and Balthasar Megelin, 1622-26. For additional views see Sion Cathedral.
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pulpit c.1650, church at Jelling, which has its own page
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standing cross, boxwood with pearls and glass, Greece c.1650-1800, UMMA 1961/1.177. This work has its own page.
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1663 James Clement wooden font cover with 1846 baptismal font, Durham Cathedral, which has its own pages with Clement 1665 choir stalls
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Model for casting bronze angel, iron/wicker/clay/straw, Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1673, Vat 6561, which has its own page
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St. Jonah, metropolitan of Moscow, wood and tempera shrine cover from Cathedral of the Assumption, c.1675-1700, KremlinArch. For detail see KremlinArch.
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Ethiopian double diptych pendant, late 17th c., StLouis 12:2016, which has its own page
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Medusa, oak and iron, 1691, Lille Hospice Comtesse ML 35
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nave vault 1694 (supports and rafters medieval), Gol stave church, Oslo NMCH, which has its own page
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bell tower rebuilt 1701, Kloster Wienhausen, which has its own pages
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Kloster Wienhausen/parish church, expanded and reworked 1701-05, which has its own page
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Storehouse from Søndre
Berdal, Nesland, Vinje
in Telemark, 1759, NMCH
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spinning wheel, 19th c., MAHSD
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Altneuschul, Prague, prayer hall chairs and desks 1880s. This work has its own pages.
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Gol stave church, Waldemar Hansteen restoration 1884-85, Oslo NMCH, which has its own page
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Louis Comfort Tiffany, Henry O. Havemeyer House, New York, front door, wood, copper, and iridescent Favrile glass 1890-91, UMMA 1986.146.3A,B. Parts from this building have their own page.
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Emile Bernard (1868-1941), Corner cabinet with Breton scenes 1891-92, wood with polychrome, IMA 2010.38. For additional views see IMA.
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Armillary sphere with moving planets, Nicola Carnevali 1892, Imola. For details see Imola.
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dressing table, satinwood/bronze/glass, Charles Plumet and Tony Selmersheim 1896-97, KGM 1897,232. For another view see Berlin.
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Sami vetical loom fr Olderdalen, Lyngen (north Norway), prob. 20th c., Bergen x. 135.00a
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wicker chair, Henry van de Velde 1904-08, KGM O-1970.22. For other views see Berlin.
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wooden ceilings 1911-30, San Francesco, Pescia, which has its own page
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St. Louis holding the Crown of Thorns, linden wood, A. Carvin 1927; with silver gilt and glass reliquary, 1833 holding relics from Ste. Chapelle, Paris; Sens CT. For detail see Sens.
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Henry Moore, Figure 1932, lignum vitae with wood base, front, UMMA 1953/1.27. Art object copyright: artist/heirs. For other views see UMMA.
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flabellum, J. Fuchs 1948, wood/silver/peacock feathers, DMP G.3.111. For detail see DMP.
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crozier with Jonah, Hildegard Domizlaff 1953, silvered bronze/ivory/ebony, DMP G.3.146. For detail see DMP.
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writing board for Islamic school, wood, Egbira people in Nigeria 1960-75; IMA, lent by Children's Museum of Indianapolis 88.242.1 [F25a6] TR 9401/1
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Man Ray, What We All Lack 1962; blown glass, clay, and wood, UMMA 1997/1.129. Art object copyright: artist/heirs. For other views see UMMA.
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Mary Annunciate, wood: Josef (Jonasz) Pryz/Pyrz (1946-2016), Galilee, Durham Cathedral, which has its own pages
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2008 sign/sculpture: National Library of Kosovo, Pristina, which has its own page
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modern Viking ship, 2010-13, which has its own page
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Martin Ebert chairs 2012, Hildesheim Cathedral, which has its own interior page
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Saint Denis, wood and polychrome, undated, MAHSD NA 4465. For another view see MAHSD.
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St. Denis, wood, undated, MAHSD. For another view see MAHSD.