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Gilding on wood - Gilding one Wood
Definition
Since millenia gold is regarded as most invaluable of metals, it reflects the glare of the light and does not tarnish, it is eternal.
Description
Gold was initially associated the religions, then kings, princes, middle-class men adapted his nobility and its esthetism to decorate their dwellings. With the base the sculptures were in solid gold and involved very high costs, to decrease them the sculptors one imagined a new technique: to carve on wood and to cover it with fine gold sheets, gilding had been born. The techniques evolved/moved until obtaining several possible nuances of gold (by mixing gold with a small quantity of copper or money). These technological developments now make it possible to obtain gold sheets do not exceed 0.2 to 0.3 Misters This smoothness makes the sheet extremely fragile, it must thus be handled with very great care with special tools. Since the XIXème century the copper sheets made their appearance
Author
Arafath Hassan
Author Email
arafath_iiuc2004@yahoo.com
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