Scagliola (from the Italian scaglia, meaning "chips") is a type of fine plaster used in architecture and sculpture. The same term identifies the technique...
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Idaho State Capitol (section Scagliola)
or Ionic – and each pillar is made up of marble dust, plaster and scagliola. Scagliola is a mixture of granite, marble dust, gypsum and glue dyed to look...
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designs, many of which survive, include widespread use of brightly coloured scagliola and blue and pink lapis, on the advice of Charles Long. King Edward VII...
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16th century and theoretically belong to the Leopoldine Wing, but the scagliola for the interior was changed around 1840 to match the appearance of the...
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light and dark patterns, giving the impression of a ruined cityscape Scagliola, imitating marble with plasterwork Verd antique, sometimes (erroneously)...
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plaster, and wax; as well as decorative arts such as mosaic, stucco, and scagliola. He performed restorations for works of Giotto, Piero della Francesca...
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in the church of Santa Maria Assunta of Sissa. He contributed to the scagliola decoration of a chapel (1724) in the Duomo of Carpi. Emilia Romagna, Guida...
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decoration marked the 1984 centenary. The reredos of Doric columns in yellow scagliola (2006) of the St Joseph chapel and a new altar and reredos of the Blessed...
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north east, housing a State Dining Room, bedrooms and dressing rooms. The scagliola ornamentations, that resemble marble inlays, were produced in Coade stone...
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only one still in situ. On each side of the lobby are eight vermillion scagliola columns. The columns rise from black octagonal bases and are adorned with...
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