Medieval jewellery
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Monday, 13 March 2017
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Jewellery
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The jewelery worn in medieval Europe deeply the public tranquility and the status-conscious. Royalty or nobles wore gold, silver and precious gems. Lower ranks of the community consisted of base metals, such as copper or pewter. Colour (provided by the gems and enamel) and to protect highly valued. Some values have inscriptions mysterious or magical, believed to protect the wearer.Until the late 14th century, the values were often polished rather than cut. Size and shiny determined their value. Enamels - on the ground fired at high temperature glasses onto the metal is allowed to place gold colors of their designs on jewelery. They used techniques to create a range of effects is still widely used today.
Decorative images after the cross is often used as a focus for meditation in the late medieval period. The scenes on the lid show Instruments of the Passion - the scourge, whip, a lance, sponge and nails used at the Crucifixion. It may be a smaller piece of one of them a relic, stored within the interior of the cross's now empty. Symbolized the purity of pearls, red and possible values, symbolized the blood shed by Christ's sacrifice.
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