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Gilding Techniques in Mural Paintings: Three Examples from the Romanesque Period in France

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Since paleo-Christian times, gold maintains a close relationship with colour within the church. However, more than just colour, gold is also matter and light. It is heat, weight and density. The use of the precious metal has an artistic, aesthetic, political and liturgical function: it is a sign, mark, and symbol of power and authority.

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This study is part of a project supported by the Aquitaine region.

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  1. Institut de Recherche sur les Archéomatériaux (IRAMAT), Centre de Recherche en Physique Appliquée à l’Archéologie, UMR 5060-IRAMAT, Université de Bordeaux/CNRS, 33607, Pessac Cedex, France

    A. Mounier, F. Daniel & F. Bechtel

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Correspondence to F. Daniel .

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  1. , Dipartimiento di Scienze della Terra, University of Siena, Via Laterina 8, Siena, 53100, Italy

    Isabella Turbanti-Memmi

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Mounier, A., Daniel, F., Bechtel, F. (2011). Gilding Techniques in Mural Paintings: Three Examples from the Romanesque Period in France. In: Turbanti-Memmi, I. (eds) Proceedings of the 37th International Symposium on Archaeometry, 13th - 16th May 2008, Siena, Italy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14678-7_39

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