stucchi

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A form of stucco — A material with binder and aggregate that is used to coat interior walls or to make interior mouldings.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of stucco

    Above the whole were vaults all around, ten feet high, ornamented with marvelous narrative reliefs of stucchi and figures.

    1978, Elisabeth B. MacDougall, editor, Fons Sapientiae: Renaissance Garden Fountains, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, →ISBN, page 80
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    The draperies and features are modelled with the utmost nicety, even insomuch as to give the appearance of stucchi of the most careful and spirited execution.

    1845 August, The Art-Union, Monthly Journal of the Fine Arts, and the Arts, Decorative, Ornamental, volume VII, London, page 270, column 3

    In a letter of February 16, 1563, Vasari (Carteggio, 1, pp. 713 ff) speaks of frescoes to be executed for the choir, for the four large lunettes at the top, for the four tondi and the four pendentives; he speaks also of stucchi in the second zone (probably in the rectangular fields above the smaller lunettes).

    1969, Charles de Tolnay, Michelangelo: The Medici Chapel, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 168

    Cardinal del Monte, on the eve of his becoming Pope Julius III, built himself one of the most decorative palaces in Rome, later acquired by Cardinal Spada which, on account of its profusion of stucchi on the façade and in the courtyard, has been ascribed to Giulio Mazzoni. […] Richly decorative façade of Palazzo Podestà (1563), overlaid with ornamental stucchi and Mannerist motifs: […]

    1971, Frederick M. Godfrey, Italian Architecture up to 1750, Tiranti, →ISBN, pages 235 and 317

    ([…] two plates, but he is otherwise accorded an equal quarter-share of the remainder of the stucchi.) […] It may be that Girardon followed Le Brun’s drawings more literally than either of the Marsy brothers for his stucchi in the Galerie d’Apollon. […] A cost estimate for the stucchi of the Galerie d’Apollon was drafted on 3 May 1663.

    1983, Thomas F. Hedin, Gaspard Marsy, The Sculpture of Gaspard and Balthazard Marsy: Art and Patronage in the Early Reign of Louis XIV, with a Catalogue Raisonné, University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, pages 36, 37, and 114

    The fine stucchi of the walls and vault frame frescoes are by the Florentine painter Sebastiano Galeotti: […] The stucchi of the ceiling and walls were made by the workshop of Giovanni Marmori, who completed the work in the autumn of 1793.

    1995, Castello di Rivoli, The Collection, Charta, →ISBN, pages 158 and 163

Origin

  1. Italianstucchi
  2. Englishstucchi

From Italian stucchi.

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