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We’re installing the Centuries in the Making exhibition at Bonhams, London, and our director & curator Hannah Phillip has had a chance to view this incredible carved panel up close, giving her an insight into Grinling Gibbons’ perspective and vision as he designed and carved it: 
“Normally it's high up and that's how Gibbons made it to be seen. So these angles are a real revelation and show how he constructed it, carving it with a view to what would be seen from below. …
He also foreshortened certain elements, again to take account of where the viewer would see it from and to get the perspective right.”
This August in London, enjoy a #MuseumStaycation and discover the genius of 17th century carver, sculptor and Baroque influencer #GrinlingGibbons in his tercentenary month.
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#LetsDoLondon
📷 ©All Hallows by the Tower
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#LetsDoLondon
📷 ©All Hallows by the Tower
Start with Centuries in the Making — a free exhibition @bonhams1793. Diverse examples of Gibbons' unparalleled craftsmanship will be displayed together for the first time from across the UK, including the magnificent carved limewood font cover from All Hallows by the Tower.
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Gibbons was paid £12 for this sculptural work, which was given to the church by Mr James Foyle in 1682. Created in the round in #3D, it demonstrates Gibbons’ skill as a sculptor as well as a decorative carver, embellished with his signature cherubs, flowers, and foliage.
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