“Stupendous and beyond all description … the incomparable carving of our Gibbons, who is without controversy the greatest master both for innovation and rareness of work that the world ever had in any age,” wrote 17th-century diarist John Evelyn about Grinling Gibbons, the greatest decorative carver in British history. This year marks 300 years since Gibbons’s death, and the Grinling Gibbons Society has put together a yearlong festival to mark the tercentenary: Grinling Gibbons 300. One of the events is the exhibition “Grinling Gibbons: Centuries in the Making.” Hannah Phillip, Grinling 300 director and the exhibition curator, explained in a telephone interview, that the exhibition aims to highlight Gibbons’s life and legacy and to shine a light on where to enjoy Gibbons’s work in situ.  To that end, the Grinling Gibbons Society has created an online catalog called “Grinling Gibbons Online” to record the artist’s work worldwide. Any works attributed to …