Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Belvedere, Vienna, Mar. 15-June 17, 2012.

Also published in German.

Includes bibliographical references and index.0

Preface / Agnes Husslein-Arco -- Art history of gold. The invention of the gold ground / Thomas Zaunschirm ; The gold ground in the Middle Ages: "Don't ask for the meaning, ask for the use!" / Michael Viktor Schwarz -- Mutable gold: gold in late-Medieval retable art, thoughts on the works in the Belvedere / Veronika Pirker-Aurenhammer ; Alberti's gold ground / Thomas Zaunschirm ; The use of gold: symptom of a paradigm shift in the material aesthetics of the nineteenth century? / Alexander Klee ; Gold leaf and golden leaves: on an unimplemented idea by Frank Lloyd Wright for Fallingwater / Joachim Driller ; The lustre of gold: the self-staging of a metal in art since 1945 / Ulrike Gehring -- The cultural history of gold. The sultan's vow: "We shall meet again by the golden apple" / Jurgen Borchhardt ; Apollo's apartments in Versailles: decoration in gold between material display and allegorical function / Markus A. Caston ; Vienna gold guide / Bodo Hell ; Gold rush / Linda Pelzmann ; "All that glitters ...": of orpiment, chrysotypes and super-black / Thomas Zaunschirm ; Gold and gilding techniques / Gabriela Krist ... [et al.] -- Themes of the exhibition. A short artistic history of gold ; Frames ; Still lifes ; Landscapes ; Seen in the city ; Holiness: triptychs and haloes ; Ground gold and other haloes ; Figuration/abstraction / Thomas Zaunschirm. 0