only the center is solid gold and the first that came from America, more or less 15 kilos.

Years later, more or less 50, it was made the rest of the statue out of solid silver, 183 kilos of that.

Centuries later by the end of XVI, it was #gilded, only the silver, with gold match the color.

Defined as one of the #greatest #jewels #of #Christianity, the “Custody” of #Toledo #Cathedral, a tower of more than two meters of #gold and #silver, runs through the streets of the city during Corpus Christi.

In the “chapel of the tower, or of the treasure”, under the tower of Toledo Cathedral and after entering through a Plateresque door with the sculptures of the “Domine, quo vadis?”, we enter the enclosure that contains some of the greatest riches of Toledo Cathedral, over which the “cathedral monstrance” stands out.

https://toledospain.click/the-custody-of-toledo-cathedral/

#Islamic #Art #IslamicCalligraphy #Sufi #Thuluth #Script #Gilded #Inscription #Horse #Chestnut #Leaf #Beauty #Turkey #Culture #History #Our #World

Natural Leaf with Calligraphy

Thuluth Script

Horse Chestnut Leaf - 20. x 8.9 cm.

9th century

Turkey

The gilded inscription within the fine net of a horse chestnut leaf says, "The best people are those who do good for other people," and reads from bottom to top. This painstaking art form preserved important cultural sayings for the Sufi sect. The technique, which involved stenciling the text and covering it with wax before laying the leaf on top, soaked in chemicals that ate away nearly everything but the vein structure, to reveal the writing. The writing was further outlined with piercing to remove still more of the leaf surface. The fineness of the leaf's filigree enhances the bold lines of the calligraphy, enhancing the stature of the words both as marks and as message.