The art of artistic enamel has more than two thousand years. The oldest known products using enamel are metal objects with soldered plates of blue glass, made between 1425 and 1300 BC, which were found in Mycenae (Greece). Since the VI century BC, the Greeks have been systematically melting enamel on gold jewelry.

As a basis for painting, the use of canvas has been known since ancient times. For example, Pliny testifies that the portrait of Nero, painted by one of the artists of that time (I century AD) by order of Nero himself, was executed on canvas, and not on wood, as was customary at that time, and the length of this painting was 40 m. One of the Fayum portraits…