Toreutics
Toreutik (Greek τορευτική, toreutiké , Latin Caelatura) is sculpture in metals in contrast to sculpture (sculptura), work in stone , ceramics and wood . The artists in this work are called goal sluts .
Conceptual
Toreutics is the working of metal with sharp instruments - chasing . Even in ancient times, the technique of knocking out or driving the molds using punches was referred to in the same way, but sometimes also a partial casting in molds. Even in Roman times, work in other materials was sometimes referred to as a Torutic product.
From the end of the 18th century, the Klauersche Kunst-Fabrick Weimar company used the term Toreutica for its artificial bricks, sculptures made from brick mass and fired, and architectural jewelry .
Well-known goal sluts
The names of some ancient gate slides are known, be it from contemporary literature or through their signed works. A compilation of this can be found in the artists' lexicon of antiquity . These include the (fictional?) Alkimedon mentioned by Virgil, Boethos of Kalchedon , Medamus or Zenodoros .
literature
- Hugo Blümner : Technology and terminology of trade and arts among Greeks and Romans. Fourth volume. Publishing house GB Teubner, Leipzig 1886.
Individual evidence
- ^ Duden online: Toreutics
- ^ Duden online: Toreut
- ↑ Blümer p. 232 f.
- ↑ Blümer p. 233 with a compilation of sources.
- ↑ List of Toreutica-wares of Klauer's Kunstfabrick to Weimar . Weimar: Verlag des Industrie-Comptoirs, 1792-1800, digitized version of the SUB Göttingen
- ↑ Rainer Vollkommer (Ed.) Künstlerlexikon der Antike p. 27.
