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  2. Polished plaster - Wikipedia

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    Venetian plaster is especially useful on surfaces where marble panels could not be installed easily, and on surfaces that would be too expensive to have carved from real marble such as columns, corbels, and curved walls. Venetian plaster can be tinted, or colored using natural or synthetic colorants. The ability to tint Venetian plaster is ...

  3. Marmorino - Wikipedia

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    Marmorino Veneziano is a type of plaster or stucco. It is based on calcium oxide and used for interior and exterior wall decorations. Marmorino plaster can be finished via multiple techniques for a variety of matte, satin, and glossy final effects. It was used as far back as Roman times, but was made popular once more during the Renaissance 500 ...

  4. Lime plaster - Wikipedia

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    Venetian plaster is a type of polished plaster that is widely used for wall and ceiling finishes. It consists of a mixture of plaster and marble dust, which is applied in thin layers using a spatula or trowel. The technique involves applying multiple layers of the plaster mixture and then burnishing the surface to create a smooth finish with ...

  5. Istrian stone - Wikipedia

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    Istrian stone, pietra d'Istria, the characteristic group of building stones in the architecture of Venice, Istria and Dalmatia, is a dense type of impermeable limestone that was quarried in Istria, nowadays Croatia; between Portorož and Pula. [1][2][3] Limestone is a biogenetic stone composed of calcium carbonate from the tests and shells of ...

  6. Carrara marble - Wikipedia

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    Carrara marble, or Luna marble (marmor lunense) to the Romans, is a type of white or blue-grey marble popular for use in sculpture and building decor. It has been quarried since Roman times in the mountains just outside the city of Carrara in the province of Massa and Carrara in the Lunigiana, the northernmost tip of modern-day Tuscany, Italy.

  7. Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice - Wikipedia

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    Show map of Venice Show map of Italy Show all. Geographic coordinates. 45°26′22″N 12°20′21″E  /  45.43944°N 12.33917°E  / 45.43944; 12.33917. Architecture. Groundbreaking. 1481. Completed. 1489. Santa Maria dei Miracoli is a church in the sestiere of Cannaregio, in Venice, Italy.

  8. Marble sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Marble Sculpture. An ancient Greek marble Trojan archer sculpture from the Temple of Aphaia missing original paint (left), and a re-creation of the same polychromy sculpture based on archaeological remnants of paint found on the marble surface (right) [1] Most ancient European marble sculptures were painted. [2] Lorenzo Bartolini, (Italian ...

  9. Vermont Marble Museum - Wikipedia

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    Marble bust of President John F. Kennedy. The Vermont Marble Company was founded in 1880 by businessman and politician Redfield Proctor, who served as the company's first president. Marble was quarried from several locations in the town of Proctor, then called Sutherland Falls, and the surrounding communities of Rutland, West Rutland and Danby ...

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