Wood is a hard, fibrous tissue found in many trees. It has been used for hundreds of thousands of years for both fuel and as a construction material. It is an organic material, a natural composite of cellulose fibers (which are strong in tension) embedded in a matrix of lignin which resists compression. Wood is sometimes defined as only the secondary xylem in the stems of trees, or it is defined more broadly to include the same type of tissue els...
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Artworks:
- Ship of Fools ,
- Virgin of the Rocks ,
- Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time ,
- Adoration of the Magi ,
- Portinari Triptych ,
- The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things ,
- Portrait of a Young Man ,
- The Madonna of the Cherubim ,
- Three Graces ,
- Venus and Mars
Also known as:
- painted wood structure
