gold

Gold is commonly seen as background for late Gothic and early Renaissance Italian paintings – known as ‘gold grounds’. The best examples are found among Sienese artists of the Trecento and Quattrocento, and also Cinquecento Florentine artists such as Fra Angelico. It is also a feature of International Gothic German paintings, especially those by artists from the Lower Rhine such as Stefan Lochner. The use of gold reemerged as fashionable among Victorian artists, led by the Pre-Raphaelites.