Gold background image

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The entire background of the painting is gilded with fine gold leaves (gold background image), reworked with paint and enriched with hallmarks. Niccolo di Pietro Gerini, Madonna and Child. Duke Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig.

The medieval panel images, which are extensively gilded in the background and are often designed by hallmarking , engraving and sometimes also painting , are referred to as gold ground images or gold ground panels . In the Middle Ages gold was not only seen as a color, but also had a symbolic and dogmatic meaning.

From the 13th to the middle of the 15th century, gilding served as a background in European panel painting. It was imaginatively designed and enriched with a wide variety of means by engraving, punching and / or partially painting it. With the “discovery” of perspective and nature for painting, it lost its importance and only stayed away from the major art centers until the 16th century.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Knut Nicolaus: DuMont's image lexicon for determining paintings . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-7701-1243-1 , p. 94 .

literature

  • Knut Nicolaus: DuMont's handbook of painting. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-8321-7288-2 .
  • Knut Nicolaus: Investigations into Italian panel painting. Callwey Verlag, special print from Maltechnik / Restauro, 3 + 4/73.