subject: Evidence Of Gold As Beautiful [print this page] Since the beginning of time, gold has been used for coinage or ornaments such as jewelry or other artifacts. However hard it may be to distinguish how much beauty and how much wealth and status are in its attractive quality for humankind, the main proof it was its brightness that caught the human eye is its very name in Latin, aurum, which means shining dawn.
The simplest definition of beauty would be the pleasure we perceive by seeing a person or an object. It is crystal clear artisans have felt this pleasure when seeing gold, otherwise being unexplainable what attracted them to use it substantially for making ornaments and improving their art of doing so. The tomb of Tutankhamen, the biggest gold collection of jewelry in history, shows the extent of this attraction humans felt for gold since oldest times. Even when used to symbolize wealth and power like in the Roman Empire later, the fact household items and furniture were made of it proves that this precious metal was considered beautiful by them, highly pleasing their senses.
The Europeans invaded the Americas in search of gold after their imagination was inflamed by travelers' stories of gold ornaments. Much earlier the Pre-Columbian cultures were developing sophisticated gold processing techniques to make their ornaments ever more appealing. They surely considered gold as the epitome of beauty.
The standards of human beauty have been always volatile from one epoch to another, one culture to another. Unlike them, the gold has been always considered beautiful by all people of all ages and places. Even if unprocessed for pleasurable human use in the form of rings, necklaces or pendants, simple gold bullion would still be considered beautiful for its attractive sheen. People seem to adorn themselves with gold jewelry to steal as it were its beauty and embellish their persons.
If the primary perception of gold had not been of something beautiful, people would have used other metals for ornaments, clothes or jewelry. But it was its beauty that transformed as it were into power, a fact clearly evidenced by the meeting in the Field of Cloth of Gold when Henry VIII astounded his rival by his marquee of cloth of gold and its equally golden armor that shone as dawn.
by: Jack Wogan.
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