TUSCANY BAROQUE FRAME CARVING
Channel: Massimiliano Gurrieri
Date: 12/06/2023

In this video we can see a master carver realizing a replica of a 17th century Tuscany Baroque frame. This reproduction frame has been ordered by a private Italian collector. As we can see the carver is using different tools and step by step is giving to the wood a very balanced baroque shape.

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They literally take life, moment by moment, while the carver proceeds patiently with the above mentioned techniques until at the end, when he is enough satisfied of his own work, he starts the cleaning process, and proceed in eliminate any imperfection to reach the astonishing final result.

If you look carefully, you will notice that the carver focuses on single spots at each time, to go forward in next moment, and coming back to something that was apparently finished while in fact wasn’t. That is the reason why we can talk about the shape of this frame taking life, moment by moment, with the enormous amount of energy used by the carver.

Occasionally, a pencil is used to redraw the shape of the ornamentations after they have been carved. This action has the purpose of always have in mind the original form to be reproduced.

The first step to realize the tough task, is to draw all over the sides a balanced decoration made of leaves. The second step instead, is made of giving it a shape which has lastly to be perfectioned by refining any detail of the ornates.

It is clear that a type of manual execution like this, it needs a very long time to be made. For an expert carver like the one you see at work, the time required to completely carve a Baroque frame model like this is approximately a week.