Art in an Early Global World at WAM: A WAM/College of the Holy Cross CollaborationMain MenuAmanda Luyster17d39c1ecea88fb7ff282fe74a410b89478b8327Created by the Worcester Art Museum and the College of the Holy Cross, with the Worcester Public Schools AP Art History class of 2024. Financial support provided by the Medieval Academy of America and "Scholarship in Action" at Holy Cross.
Print showing goldsmith at work
1media/Goldsmith-print_thumb.jpg2024-04-14T10:53:28-07:00Amanda Luyster17d39c1ecea88fb7ff282fe74a410b89478b8327448013Garzoni, Tommaso, Goldschmiede, 1641, Copper Engraving Print on Paper, Deutsche Fotothek. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fotothek_df_tg_0007208_Ständebuch_%5E_ Beruf_%5E_Handwerk_%5E_Goldschmied.jpg.plain2024-08-15T11:44:50-07:00Zoe Zimmer726b0bce27fe407b566d2fd9122871e9e9ddcf50
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12024-03-28T13:30:52-07:00Who made this Necklace?9plain2024-10-22T18:26:28-07:00 The craftsman of this necklace remains unknown, given that such artisans were usually anonymous in the Byzantine period. However, it would have been made by a goldsmith: someone who had been trained to work explicitly with the gold, and who knew how to create thin gold wires. The gold might have been supplied by the patron, or it could have been purchased by the goldsmith.
Junyi Wu, College of the Holy Cross, Class of 2026
