Colour: a human history
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What Is the Meaning of Yellow?
christian artists used gold partly to simulate sacred light, the divine light that emanated from god and christ. And also to demonstrate how much money had been spent on these wonderful art works by wealthy individuals or churches. So for instance, one of the ways they used it was gildinga gilding is when you hammer gold into very, very thin sheets,. Then you stick them on to a painting, and then you burnish them. The other way they did it was they would decorate the entire insides of buildings in gold mosaic.
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