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Gold ground (both a noun and adjective) or gold-ground (adjective) is a term in art history for a style of images with all or most of the background in a solid gold colour. Historically, real gold leaf has normally been used, giving a luxurious appearance.
Scholars also have noticed that the script is outlined in dark brown ink. Since the dark brown color sometimes partially covers the gold, it is reasonably to assume that outlining is the final step that was possibly used to “neaten” the feathery edges of the gold leaf, and to give the manuscript a more clean and crisp finish. [17]
A gold nugget of 5 mm (0.2 in) in diameter (bottom) can be expanded through hammering into a gold foil of about 0.5 m 2 (5.4 sq ft). The Toi gold mine museum, Japan.. Gold leaf is gold that has been hammered into thin sheets (usually around 0.1 μm thick [1]) by a process known as goldbeating, [2] for use in gilding.
Sumerian and Akkadian jewellery was created from gold and silver leaf and set with many semiprecious stones (mostly agate, carnelian, jasper, lapis lazuli and chalcedony). A number of documents have been found that relate to the trade and production of jewellery from Sumerian sites.
Gothic acanthuses on a page of the Codex Salemitanus IX c, 15th century, tempera colors, gold paint, gold leaf, and ink on parchment, Heidelberg University Library, Heidelberg, Germany Renaissance acanthuses on the fabric worn by king Edward IV , portrait painted by Lucas Horenbout , c. 1470-1475
Gold and fire-blackened ivory fragments of a burnt Archaic chryselephantine statue (Delphi Archaeological Museum) Chryselephantine sculpture (from Ancient Greek χρυσός (khrusós) 'gold' and ελεφάντινος (elephántinos) 'ivory') is a sculpture made with gold and ivory. Chryselephantine cult statues enjoyed high status in Ancient ...
Leaf crafts and leaf art — add them to the top of your list of fall activities. Incorporating real leaves into creative fall crafts is one of the easiest things to do, especially since the ideas ...
A pyramidion is a capstone at the top of a pyramid. Called benbenet in ancient Egyptian language, it associated the pyramid as a whole with the sacred Benben stone. Pyramidia may have been covered in gold leaf to reflect the rays of the sun; in the Middle Kingdom, they were often inscribed with royal titles and religious symbols. [105]