| The making of the material known as 'bronze', it is | | | | color, along with it being a metal of strength and |
| created by the mixing and melting of tin and copper. | | | | performance. |
| The reason for the creation of bronze was because | | | | The very first bronze casting has been traced to |
| the metal of copper is overly soft for many different | | | | China around the year of 1,700 B.C., and almost all of |
| types of items such as tools, and the metal medium of | | | | these original bronze castings were specifically for the |
| tin is just highly brittle, and breaks very easily. But when | | | | ritual of worshiping the people's ancestors. Most all of |
| these to metal mediums are combined through the | | | | these ancestral bronze castings would be engraved |
| heating and melting process, there would be the very | | | | with the individual name of the ancestor, and |
| hard metal of bronze. | | | | sometimes engravings of the events that were |
| Not only does bronze make a wonderfully hard metal | | | | important of the ancestor. These ancestral castings |
| for tools, coins, shields or Armour, and of course, | | | | would be kept as extremely special heirlooms of the |
| statues. Bronze not only is uniquely hard forever long | | | | families that the ancestor belonged to. |
| lasting statues large and small, but as it ages, with the | | | | During the Bronze Age of ancient Greece, bronze |
| help of air exposure, there is a greenish brown | | | | was highly admired for the used of vase production, |
| corrosion that starts to appear over time. This is a | | | | large and small statues and sculptures, along with |
| welcoming sight for most all bronze statue collectors | | | | battle helmets, money and later on candlesticks, doors |
| because of its creative uniqueness of each and every | | | | for and religious vessels, reliquaries and many other |
| individual piece of bronze artwork. | | | | church and cathedral related items. |
| Bronze was originally used approximately 5,000 years | | | | Later on by the early 1300's, bronze would extensively |
| ago, and this was then the beginning of the Bronze | | | | be used for such things as war cannons and other |
| Ages within China, Egypt and Greece, and later on | | | | personal protection during battles. As time went on, the |
| during the time period of 1,900 B.C. upon the continent | | | | bronze metal would eventually be the material for |
| of England. Even from the beginning of the Bronze | | | | common in home items such as chandeliers, furniture |
| Age, bronze was recognized for its unique beauty and | | | | fittings, ewers and basins. |