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A Goldsmith in His Shop is a 1449 painting by Petrus Christus, a leading painter in Bruges. [1] It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.This is an oil painting on an oak panel that measures 100.1 x 85.8 cm (39 3/8 x 33 3/4 inches) overall and the painted surface is 98 x 85.2 cm (38 5/8 x 33 1/2 inches).
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.
The prime version of The Shortening Winter's Day is near a Close (Lady Lever Art Gallery) was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1903. [7]The 82 x 120 cm version does not have a definitive date it was painted, but it is probable it was soon after the exhibition of 1903 and likely to have been painted to satisfy a patron that had been disappointed not to be able to purchase the exhibited ...
The depiction of winter landscapes in Western art begins in the 15th century, as does landscape painting in general. Wintry and snowy landscapes are very rarely seen in earlier European painting since most of the subjects were religious. Gold ground paintings had no painted backgrounds and other narrative scenes had highly stylized trees and ...
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