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the alloy so revolutionary it named an entire age of humanity
means A hard, durable alloy of copper and tin, prized for tools, weapons, statues, and medals — and the warm reddish-brown color of that metal.
from English borrowed 'bronze' from French in the 17th century, which took it from Italian 'bronzo.' Beyond that the trail gets murky: one popular theory traces it to Latin 'aes Brundisinum' — 'bronze of Brundisium,' a port in southern Italy famed for its metalwork — while another points to Persian 'birinj' (copper). Both are plausible cousins, but scholars don't agree, so the deeper root stays genuinely uncertain.
- recipe
- copper plus tin, harder than either alone
- age stamp
- named a 2,000-year human era
- third place
- loses gold and silver, beats everyone else
- bell metal
- high-tin bronze rings church bells worldwide
- patina
- that green coat is corrosion protecting itself
the david by michelangelo — marble sculpture, not bronze - but the bronze david by donatello (1440s, florence) is the first free-standing nude since antiquity
rodin's the thinker — cast in bronze, 1880, originally part of the gates of hell commission
the riace warriors — two ancient greek bronze statues recovered from the sea near riace, italy in 1972, circa 460-450 bce
henry moore's reclining figure — monumental bronze abstract sculpture series starting 1929, most famous modernist bronze works