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SMITH (Robert C.). A TALHA EM PORTUGAL. Lisboa. 1962. - SMITH (Robert C.) A TALHA EM PORTUGAL . Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 1962. 198, 148, [2] pp., 24 est.: il.; 325 mm. Original edition. Woodcarving in Portugal is the fundamental work for the knowledge and study of Portuguese gilded and polychrome woodcarving, a decorative art that reached an unparalleled level of development in the country and decisively marked the interior of Portuguese churches, especially during the Baroque period. The study resulted from an extensive photographic inventory of woodcarving in Portugal, carried out with the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and with the collaboration of photographers such as Mário Novais and Marques de Abreu, and also gave rise to a homonymous traveling exhibition, inaugurated in Lisbon in 1963 and presented for almost three decades in Portugal and abroad. The text is organized into nine chapters: The Technique; Gothic Style Carving; Renaissance Carving, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; The National Style; The Joanine Style; The Final Phase; Complementary Carving; and The Morphology of the Carved Altarpiece. Profusely illustrated with color and black and white prints outside the text. Originally published in installments. A highly regarded and sought-after reference work. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate