ARTH 210 Study Guide - Final Guide: Gloucester Candlestick, Ferrous, Bone Char

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Art History
• Course: ARTH 210
• Professor: Fiona Graham

Document Summary

Metals used for sculpture: bronze, iron, zinc, aluminum. To improve its weathering qualities, to bring out the characteristics of its material to the best advantage, or to make it more decorative or realistic, sculpture is usually given a special surface to finish. It may be rubbed down and polished, patinated, metal plated, gilded, painted, inlaid with other materials, and so on. Metal has been used before recorded history. Native metals were used first: gold, silver and copper>easy to find because of their colour: iron and mercury also found in native state. Mixing (alloying) of metals came even later. The higher the temperature needed to smelt the ore, the longer. Iron(smelted) 1750bc it took for humans to use that metal. Metal are: hard, opaque and shiny; a good conductor of electricity and heat; malleable; crystalline at the atomic level. Most are found in the form of ores (minerals) Metals want to return to their mineral form.