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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.
Art in the Middle Ages is a broad subject and art historians traditionally divide it in several large-scale phases, styles or periods. The period of the Middle Ages neither begins nor ends neatly at any particular date, nor at the same time in all regions, and the same is true for the major phases of art within the period. [10]
Germanic fibulae, early 5th century The Dunstable Swan Jewel, a livery badge in gold and ronde bosse enamel, about 1400. Gold belt end and buckle, c. 600, Avar version of Byzantine style. The Middle Ages was a period that spanned approximately 1000 years and is normally restricted to Europe and the Byzantine Empire.
The early Bibles moralisées are an example of the move away from the Byzantine influences, this movement is part of the early gothic art movement. The early gothic style lasted until the middle of the thirteenth century and is characterized by a softer and more realistic style than the Byzantine influenced style.
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.
Like other mosaics, Byzantine mosaics are made of small pieces of glass, stone, ceramic, or other material, which are called tesserae. [18] During the Byzantine period, craftsmen expanded the materials that could be turned into tesserae, beginning to include gold leaf and precious stones, and perfected their construction.
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 ...
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.