Award winning wood carvings since 1963
Award winning wood carvings since 1963
50th Anniversary of Wood Carvings Celebration With 50 Bear Wood Carvings!
Each new Christmas season brings new ideas for ornaments. Special orders considered.
The Rabbit and Squirrel Ornaments can both be reversed in design if requested, so pairs can be created in case two of the same ornaments are needed for the same tree.
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The Madonna wood carvings sometimes show Mary with Baby Jesus and sometimes show Mary still waiting for the birth. Having two figures represented in the carving opens new opportunities for showing different moments of emotion. Mary's carving can look peaceful or anxious or joyful. The idea works well in any size and in both the Linden and Butternut woods. Since the theme is motherhood, it also has a universal appeal, not limited to Christmas.
The Madonna and Child is one of the central icons of Christianity. After
some initial resistance and controversy, the formula "Mother of God" (Theotokos)
was adopted officially by the Christian Church at the Council of Ephesus,
431. The earliest representations of Mother and Child were developed in the
Eastern Empire, where despite an iconoclastic strain in culture that
rejected physical representations as "idols", respect for venerated images
was expressed in the repetition of a narrow range of highly conventionalized
types, the repeated images familiar as icons (Greek "image").
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In the West, hieratic Byzantine models were closely followed in the Early
Middle Ages, but with the increased importance of the cult of the Virgin in
the 12th and 13th centuries a wide variety of types developed to satisfy a
flood of more intensely personal forms of piety. In the usual Gothic and
Renaissance formulas the Virgin Mary sits with the Infant Jesus on her lap,
or enfolded in her arms. In earlier representations the Virgin is enthroned,
and the Child may be fully aware, raising his hand to offer blessing. In a
15th century Italian variation, a baby John the Baptist looks on.
Late Gothic sculptures of the Virgin and Child may show a standing virgin
with the child in her arms. Iconography varies between public images and
private images supplied on a smaller scale and meant for personal devotion
in the chamber: the Virgin suckling the Child (such as the Madonna Litta) is
an image largely confined to private devotional icons.
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