Glossary entry

Italian term or phrase:

gruppo ligneo

English translation:

wooden group

Added to glossary by Francesca Siotto
Feb 7, 2004 12:29
20 yrs ago
Italian term

gruppo ligneo

Italian to English Art/Literary Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting medieval art
Medieval art. The phrase is "un gruppo ligneo di San Giorgio e il drago". A gruppo ligneo is a group of carved wooden figures. Is there a recognised term in the art world? Thanks!
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wooden group

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Among the other, a rare Fourteenth-century wooden group by an unknown artist,
the painting known as "Madonna with Child Jesus, St. Joseph, St. ...
www.estero.unibo.it/aric/Percorsi/Centoing.htm

side-aisle the Holy Ghost hovered over the Virgin; on another one, Mary knelt before
the Child Jesus, and behind the alter, a wooden group represented Saint ...
www.pagebypagebooks.com/Gustave_Flaubert/ A_Simple_Soul/Chapter_III_p1.html

This wooden group, the earliest free-standing equestrian sculpture in Venice,
is placed high on the wall of the south transept of the Frari -a church at ...
www.veniceinperil.org/projects/pastprojects/frari.htm
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