, theRomans used caementum marmorcum, i.e. stucco made of lime andpounded marble. Vitruvius (vii. 3, 4) directs that where the sur-face is to be painted in fresco six coats (coria) of stucco are to be 1 Vitr. ii. 8, 1 Structurarum genera sunt haec, reticulatum quo nunc omnesutuntur e!: antiquum… … s § 58 ARCHITECTURE chap, ii applied, three of the coarser sort and three of marble cement.This finer material was often used, especially in the Republicanperiod, to render and enrich the architectural mouldings of cornices,friezes, capitals, &c, which were roughly blocked out in stone,as we…
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