At Russ enamel came from Byzantium, so the Russian name of enamel - enamel "- comes from the Greek" fingitis ", which translates as" bright, shining stone ". That's brilliance, brightness, color neuvyadaemost attract artistic enamel, no matter what technique is not performed. Glassy mass of different colors used to decorate metal objects by artisans of Kievan Rus, which owned technicians emarginate and cloisonne enamels. Painting on the enamel, relatively recent technology of artistic enameling, appeared in Russia in the late XVII century. In Rostov enamel began to paint from the middle of XVIII century. (c)
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