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The art of the plasterer; an account of the decorative development of the craft, chiefly in England, from the 16th to the 18th century, with chapters on the stucco of the classic period and of the Italian Renaissance, also on sgraffito, pargetting, Scottish, Irish and modern plasterwork (1908)

Bankart, George Percy, 1866- · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 27

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FIG. 8.— Roman Stucco-Duro, fromthe Garden of the Villa Farnesina. … ANCIENT STUCCO-DURO. With such a medium they modelled direct, as it set very slowly, and wassmooth and hard. It was absolutely impervious to wet or climatic variations. Sogood was this preparation, and so smooth and hard, that jewellers used it inpreference to wax, and modelling- of such delicacy…

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