Metalwork - Medieval Crafts, Techniques, Art

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Introduction
General processes and techniques
- Hammering and casting
- Embossing, or repoussé
- Chasing
- Engraving
- Inlaying
- Enamelling
- Gilding
Western metalwork
- Copper
  - Antiquity
    - Mesopotamia
    - Egypt
  - Middle Ages
    - Europe
    - Islām
  - Renaissance to modern
- Bronze and brass
  - Antiquity
    - Mesopotamia
    - Iran
    - Egypt
    - Crete
    - Greece
    - Etruria
    - Rome
    - Teutonic tribes
  - Middle Ages: Byzantine Empire
  - Middle Ages: Islām
  - Europe from the Middle Ages
    - Italy
    - Germany and the Low Countries
    - England
    - France
- Silver and gold
  - Antiquity
    - Pre-Mycenaean
    - Minoan and Mycenaean
    - Iran
    - Greek and Etruscan
    - Roman
    - Early Christian and Byzantine
  - Middle Ages
    - Carolingian and Ottonian
    - Romanesque
    - Gothic
    - Islām
  - Renaissance to modern
    - 16th century
    - Baroque
    - 18th century
    - Colonial America
    - 19th century
    - Modern
- Pewter
  - Antiquity
  - Middle Ages
  - 16th century to modern
- Iron
  - Early history
  - Belgium and Holland
  - England
  - France
  - Germany
  - Italy
  - Spain
  - United States
  - Mid-19th century onward
- Lead
  - Antiquity
  - Middle Ages
  - Renaissance to modern
Non-Western metalwork
- South Asia
  - Iron
  - Gold and silver
- Central and Southeast Asia
- East Asia
  - China
    - Bronze
    - Iron
    - Gold and silver
  - Korea
    - The formative years
    - The Three Kingdoms period (c. 57 bc–ad 668)
    - The Unified, or Great, Silla period (668–935)
    - The Koryŏ period (918–1392)
  - Japan
    - Bronze and other metals
    - Gold and silver
- American Indian peoples
  - Pre-Columbian
  - Southwest Indian
  - Modern
- Africa

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