Ship Decoration 1630-1780

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		Ship Decoration 1630-1780
		Ship Decoration 1630-1780

This book is a detailed comparative study of the decorative work - figurehead, topside ornamentation and stern gallery design - carried by the ships of the major maritime states of Europe in the zenith of the sailing era. It covers both warships and the most prestigious merchant ships, the East Indiamen of the great chartered companies. The work began life in the year 2000 when the author was commissioned to carry out research for an ambitious project to build a full-size replica of a Swedish East Indiaman, which produced a corpus of information whose relevance stretched way beyond the immediate requirements of accurately decorating the replica. In tracking the artistic influences on European ship decoration, it became clear that this was essentially the story of the baroque style, its dissemination from France, and its gradual transformation into distinct national variations in Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden. It is an inherently visual subject and the book illustrates developments with numerous photographs of contemporary ship models, paintings and plans, as well as the author's own interpretive illustrations of details. As the first major work on the topic for nearly a century, it will be of obvious appeal to ship modellers and historians, but with comparative examples drawn from architecture and sculpture, it also makes a broader contribution to the history of the applied arts.

作者简介

ANDY PETERS is a professional woodcarver who specializes in restoring original ships' figureheads and carving replicas. His commissions have included the head of the replica French frigate Hermione at Rochefort, as well as all the decorative work for the Gotheborg Swedish East Indiaman project, a five-year undertaking.

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Certainly well researched and well written history of both ship carving and the Navys of the Old World. For the woodcarver or would-be shipcarver, this was of little practical application. The history, whys and wherefores, were enlightening, yet difficult to apply to hands-on carving and design. For the price, I cannot recommend it, other than as a historical treatment of the topic. Many other how-to books out there that would be much more useful, and significantly cheaper.

Well-researched and well-written source on ship decoration that updates and mostly supercedes the earlier classics of the subject, written in the 1920s. Highly recommended.
It is an outstanding source for the subject and one of the few that offers comparative study of different decorative traditions, including the very rarely mentioned Scandinavian maritime powers.

This book is not and never was intended to be a step-by-step carver's textbook. The other reviewer has clearly missed entirely the point of the book, had purchased it without reading the description.

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