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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Wood-Carving |
 | | The imagination of the carver had its freest field in the misericords, where in addition to fruits and flowers, the wildest designs of the artist's inventive fancy may be found, the secular and spiritual, serious and gay, satirical and |
 | | This naturally made it unnecessary for the carver to carry out his work into the finest details, as it was to be covered by polychromatic painting. |
 | | German sculptors in wood were also painters, or at least owned studios, such as Michael Pacher, Friedrich Herlin, and Hans Multscher, hence, though the undercutting of the drapery was deep and its design bold, the effect was mean and trivial. |
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