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Standing Man with Miniature Raft
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Artist
Anonymous (Colombian artist)Unknown author
Title
Standing Man with Miniature Raft
Description
English: The earliest evidence of goldworking in the Western Hemisphere dates to around 2000 BC, when gold was first hammered into thin foil sheets in ancient Peru. But it was the goldsmiths of Colombia who had access to the largest veins of gold ore, which they extracted by "placer mining" (panning) and by building simple, vertical shaft mines. Gold was melted and worked in a variety of techniques, including hammering, often around a wooden form, and lost-wax casting (in which a wax model of an object is made and encased in clay, which is fired, causing the wax to melt and run out through a hole; molten gold is then poured into the hole and hardens, and the resulting figure is revealed when the clay mold is broken apart). Much ancient American gold is naturally alloyed, or mixed, with copper, with percentages of copper rising to as high as 70 percent. This material, called "tumbaga," often has a reddish color. Ancient Colombian metalworkers developed "depletion gilding" techniques, in which the copper was removed from the gold using organic acids.
The most famous Muisca artifacts are "tunjos," human images cast using the lost-wax technique and left much rougher in surface texture than most ancient Colombian gold. The knowledge of goldworking spread from the central and northern Andes into Central America, and gradually a blend of techniques and imagery developed into what is known as the "International Style." Very little of this material survived the Spanish conquest.
Date
between 1000 and 1500
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1000-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
(Late Intermediate)
Medium
gold
medium QS:P186,Q897
Dimensions
15.3 × 4.4 cm (6 × 1.7 in)
Collection
Walters Art Museum
Native name
Walters Art Museum
Location
Baltimore, United States of America
Coordinates
39° 17′ 48″ N, 76° 36′ 58″ W
Established
1934
Website
thewalters.org
Authority file
: Q210081
VIAF: 128918374
ISNI: 000000040373611X
ULAN: 500279110
LCCN: no00096900
GND: 16029354-6
WorldCat
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
57.2289
Place of creation
Colombia
Object history
Rebecca Herrero Stokes [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
2003: given to Walters Art Museum
Exhibition history
Art of the Ancient Americas. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2002-2010.
Credit line
Gift of Rebecca Herrero Stokes, 2003
Source
Walters Art Museum: Home page Info about artwork
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