colour meaning of gold?

Answer 1

If you mean 'what is the significance of the use of gold in Old Master paintings', the answer is that it signifies either holiness or regality. It was often used together with the colour purple which also signified that the person wearing it was an individual of great power - a King or Queen, for example.

Answer 2

In the past, when the sponsor of a painting was very rich, he could afford -and ask the painter- to use gold pigments. The more gold the richer.
Gold also had a symbolic meaning, like a Saint's aura. But the, all colours (blue the virgin Mary as a mother, white as a saint, etc.) had their conventional meaning at the time of the Renaissance and even before. You can compare this to music, where a soprano is the (happy, salved) soul, the bass God or a prophet, etc...
Actually I have a colour that is called "Renaissance Gold" but honestly, yellow ochre with a bit of white is as rich a colour than that one!

Answer 3

"Golden yellow suggests the highest sublimation of matter by the power of light, impalpably radiant, lacking transparency, but weightless as a pure vibration. Gold was formerly much used in painting. It signifies luminous, light emitting matter. The golden domes of Byzantine mosaics and the backgrounds in the paintings of early masters were symbols of the beyond, the marvelous, the kingdom of sun and light. The golden aura of saints is the token of heir transfiguration. The attainment of this state was conceived as an envelopment by light. This heavenly light could not be symbolized except by gold."

Answer 4

Gold symbolizes: Wealth, prosperity, wisdom

Answer 5

Gifted