stucco

(noun)

A plaster that is used to coat interior or exterior walls or used for moldings.

Related Terms

  • gandhara
  • style

Examples of stucco in the following topics:

  • Nayak Architecture

    • Among the main characteristics are the long corridors; the carved hundred-pillared and thousand-pillared mandapas (outdoor temple halls or porches); and the high, multi-storied gopurams (towers adorning the entrance of a temple), richly decorated with brightly-painted stone and stucco statues of animals, gods, and demons.
    • The structure was constructed using foliated brickwork and the surface details finished in stucco mixed from shell lime and egg whites to provide a smooth and glossy texture.
    • Gopurams from the Nayak Period are adorned with brightly-painted stucco statues of gods and goddesses, demons, and animals, both real and mythical.
  • Palladio

    • Many of his buildings are of brick covered with stucco.
    • Stuccoed brickwork was always used in his villa designs in order to portray his interpretations of the Roman villa typology.
    • He often used Mannerist elements such as stucco surface reliefs and large columns often extending two-stories high .
  • Greco-Buddhist Art

    • Stucco as stone was widely used by sculptors in Gandhāra for the decoration of monastic and cult buildings.
    • Stucco provided the artist with a medium of great plasticity, enabling a high degree of expressiveness to be given to the sculpture.
    • Sculpting in stucco was popular wherever Buddhism spread from Gandhāra: India, Afghanistan, Central Asia, and China.
  • Deconstructivism

    • This subverts the functional aspects of modernist simplicity while taking modernism, particularly the international style, of which its white stucco skin is reminiscent, as a starting point.
  • Architecture of the Mughal Period

    • The exterior decorations of the Taj Mahal include calligraphy, abstract forms, verses from the Koran, and vegetable motifs, executed in paint, stucco, carvings, and pietra dura work.
    • During Aurangzeb's reign (1658 - 1707), brick and rubble with stucco ornamentation replaced squared stone and marble as the building materials of choice.
  • Geometric Symbolism

    • The Alhambra palace in Granada, Spain is a famous example of repeating motifs which occur in the tile and stucco decoration .
    • The Alhambra palace in Granada, Spain is a famous example of repeating geometrical motifs which occur in the tile and stucco decoration.
  • American Art Deco Architecture

    • Common characteristics of Streamline Moderne included horizontal orientation, rounded edges, corner windows, glass blocks, porthole windows, chrome hardware, smooth exterior wall surfaces (usually stucco), horizontal wall grooves, and subdued colors.
  • Thai Buddhist Sculpture

    • Ayutthaya sculptures were executed in stone, bronze, and brick and stucco.
  • Urbino

    • In high, plainly stuccoed rooms the richly sculptured doorways, chimneys, and friezes created by Barocci, Domenico Rosselli, and their workshops stand out.
  • Architecture in the Vijayanagar Empire

    • Vijayanagar temples are surrounded by strong enclosures and characterized by ornate pillared kalyanamandapa (marriage halls); tall rayagopurams (carved monumental towers at the entrance of the temple) built of wood, brick, and stucco in the Chola style; and adorned with life-sized figures of gods and goddesses.
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