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The stucco frames were modeled by Giovanni Francesco Bicesi, also called Il Fornarino. The individual panels depicting scenes from the story of Philemon and Baucis in Ovid's Metamorphoses were painted by Bernardino Campi. The long walls depict the Circus Maximus and the Circus Flaminius, and between the windows is an urban perspective from a ...
Marmorino stucco. 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.
The Italian architect Aldo Rossi has designed a number of Palazzo style buildings, including Hotel Il Palazzo in Fukuoka, Japan, (1989) which combines elements of a typical palazzo facade, including projecting cornice, with the intense red found in Japanese traditional architecture, and the green of patinated bronze. [9]
The exterior of the home is quintessentially Italian. With a stucco and brick exterior and tiled roof shingles, the home's timeless appearance mirrors Ferrari's commitment to design.
Italian scagliola top, second half of the 18th century. Scagliola (from the Italian scaglia, meaning "chips") is a type of fine plaster used in architecture and sculpture.The same term identifies the technique for producing columns, sculptures, and other architectural elements that resemble inlays in marble. [1]
Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as a decorative coating for walls and ceilings, exterior walls, and as a sculptural and artistic material in architecture.
Mar-a-Lago was designed in the Spanish Revival style—typified by red tile roofs, stucco walls, and asymmetrical facade— the aesthetic that was de rigeur when it was built between 1923 and 1927 ...
The destrictarium (4) (room for preparing before, and cleaning after, gymnastic exercise) adjoining the nymphaeum (5) in the southwest corner of the palaestra has an exterior wall covered with elaborate stucco decoration, once brightly painted. On the left side of the palaestra is a bowling alley (3) with 9 tracks where 2 stone bowling balls ...