gold leaf

Examples of gold leaf in the following topics:

• The Spanish Conquest and Its Effects on Incan Art

  • In addition to disease and population decline, a large portion of the Inca population—including artisans and crafts people—was enslaved and forced to work in the gold and silver mines.
  • Its façade is carved in stone, and its main altar is made of carved wood covered with gold leaf.
  • Cusco painting is characterized by exclusively religious subject matter; warped perspective; frequent use of the colors red, yellow, and earth tones; and an abundance of gold leaf.
  • Another unique characteristic of the style was the application of aguada, or watercolor paint, on top of gold leaf or silver paint, giving it a unique metallic sheen.
  • Cusco painting is characterized by exclusively religious subject matter; warped perspective; frequent use of the colors red, yellow, and earth tones; and an abundance of gold leaf.

• Spanish Art in the Americas

  • Cuzco painting is characterized by exclusively religious subject matter, warped perspective, frequent use of the colors red, yellow and earth tones, as well as an abundance of gold leaf .
  • Another unique characteristic of the style was the application of "aguada," or watercolor paint, on top of gold leaf or silver paint, giving it a unique metallic sheen.
  • Cuzco painting is characterized by exclusively religious subject matter, warped perspective, frequent use of the colors red, yellow and earth tones, as well as an abundance of gold leaf.

• The Early Middle Ages

  • The Codex is decorated with gems and gold relief, and can be accurately dated to 870, although the workshop in which it was made remains unknown.
  • Gold was also used to create sacred objects for churches and palaces, as a solid background for mosaics, or applied as gold leaf to miniatures in manuscripts and panel paintings.
  • Gold and gem-encrusted cover of the Codex Aureus of St.

• Painting in the Late Byzantine Empire

  • The background is typically Byzantine: gold leaf background that mimics the golden backgrounds of mosaics.
  • However, many icons retained the traditional gold backgrounds.
  • Gold leaf and tempera on wood panels. c. 1405.

• Romanesque Illustrated Books

  • Alban's Psalter, Hunterian Psalter, Winchester Bible (the "Morgan Leaf"), Fécamp Bible, Stavelot Bible, and Parc Abbey Bible.
  • These are the earliest English miniatures to have gold-leaf backgrounds incised with patterns of lines and dots.
  • All the psalms have a large illuminated initial, often historiated, and each verse starts with an enlarged gold initial.
  • Each book of the Bible and the major sections of Psalms are introduced by a large historiated initial in colors and gold, with the exception of the books of Deuteronomy, Isaiah, and Haggai.

• Italian Painting: 1200–1400

  • The work retains the gold background that was familiar in Byzantine icons, and his figures are rendered in a Byzantine style.
  • His work was often ornate with the use of gold leaf and jewels, demonstrating how Siena was focused on the physical materiality of work.
  • While his work retains the gold background and gold halos so important in Byzantine art (and to Sienese patrons), this art acts as a bridge between the late Medieval era and Early Renaissance.
  • Duccio's work demonstrates the emerging Renaissance style, as seen in the developed form of the figures, as well as the older Byzantine styles and the Sienese preference for materiality with the use of gold.

• Rinpa School Painting in the Edo Period

  • The stereotypical standard painting in the Rinpa style involves simple natural subjects such as birds, plants, and flowers with the background filled in with gold leaf.
  • Sōtatsu specialized in making decorated paper with gold or silver backgrounds, which Kōetsu assisted by adding calligraphy.
  • Kōrin's innovation was to depict nature as an abstract, using numerous color and hue gradations, mixing colors on the surface to achieve eccentric effects, and liberally using precious substances like gold and pearl.

• Mycenaean Metallurgy

  • The rhyton consists primarily of silver with gold-leaf accents.
  • Gold. c. 1600-1500 BCE.
  • Gold. c. 1600-1500 BCE (?).
  • Gold. c. 1600-1500 BCE.
  • Bronze with gold, silver, and niello inlay. c. 16th century BCE.

• Ottonian Illustrated Books in the Early European Middle Ages

  • One of the most important art forms of the period was the illuminated manuscript, a manuscript in which the text is supplemented by ornamentation in the form of colored initials, decorative borders, and miniature illustrations, sometimes executed with the addition of gold and silver leaf.
  • The portrait is done in purple and gold and says "Egbertus" on top.

• Jain Illustrated Manuscripts

  • Jain illustrated manuscripts, originally painted on palm leaf, were characterized by sharp outlines and depictions of Jain saviors.
  • Painted on palm leaf, these illustrations rely on sharp outlines for effect, becoming progressively more angular and wiry until barely a trace of naturalism is left.
  • The text is written in gold and the margins are illuminated with figural patterns.
  • Paintings in lavish blue, gold, and red, testifying to the wealth of the patron, often take up an entire page.
  • It uses opaque watercolor and gold on paper.