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Carving Ruth and Naomi   Upper Tier, South Portal

Simon Verity's stonecarving is inspired by Europe's Gothic tradition. Medieval image-makers worked without models, instead carving directly into the stone working from sketches and drawings. Verity revives this tradition and he and Marchionni are seen in this sequence carving the two figures of Ruth and Naomi from one block.

John Angel, a carver whose work surrounds the North Portal of the Cathedral, used a different approach. He employed the Renaissance technique of working from scale models made of clay to create that portal and the figure of St. John the Divine in the center of the Portal of Paradise. Statuary at Washington Cathedral was created in this Renaissance style.

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