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CARVING

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 438 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CARVING  . To carve (A.S. ceorfan: connected with Gr. yp6. i tv) is to cut, whatever the material; but apart from the domestic sense of carving

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meat, the word is more particularly associated with the
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art of
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sculpture . The name of sculptor (see SCULPTURE) is commonly reserved for the
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great masters of the art, especially in
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stone and
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marble, while that of
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carver is given to the artists or workmen who execute the sub-
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ordinate decorations of
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architecture .

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