HOME WHO WE ARE TREATMENTS SERVICES CONTACTS WHERE WE ARE BRONZING CURIOSITY It was used extensively during the Bronze Age. During this historical period, to which he even gave his name, it was used to build tools, weapons, armor and tools that were stronger and lighter than those in stone or copper; arsenic was added to the component metals, mostly as impurities, which contributed to making the alloy even harder. This primitive bronze was also more durable than the early iron weapons, owing to the fact that the way to forge good quality steel would only be discovered millennia later. Despite this however, the Bronze Age gave way to the Iron Age, as tin shipments across the Mediterranean Sea ceased during the great migrations of populations that took place in the period from 1200 to 1100 BC, making it extremely difficult finding the necessary raw material and causing a sharp increase in the prices of this material. Bronze was therefore used only for objects of particular value,while for many purposes the weaker soft iron was strong enough to take its place. From the beginning of the twentieth century silicon was introduced as the main binder of copper, and today most of the bronze for industrial and artistic uses is actually a copper-silicon alloy. Bronze is widely used by sculptors for their works, because many bronze alloys have the unusual and very useful property of expanding slightly just before solidifying, filling every minimum void in the mold that contains them. This allows, in the finished sculpture, to perfectly render every detail of the artist's work. Some examples of bronzing TREATMENTS Silver plating Bronzing Chrome plating Gilding Brass plating Copper plating Painting Examples of various treatments REQUEST A QUOTE © 2017 L'Artigiano del Restauro in Rome - Galvanic restoration treatments Thesis - Via Chiesina Uzzanese 38 00138 Rome - Tel. 06 88 56 56 86 - VAT 03751941000 - acceptance2@galvanicapaciotti.it designed and powered by atjoomla.com