Gesso (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒɛsso]; 'chalk', from the Latin: gypsum, from Greek: γύψος), also known as "glue gesso" or "Italian gesso", is a white...

whereas real gesso is not suitable for canvas. The artist might apply several layers of gesso, sanding each smooth after it has dried. Acrylic gesso is very...

Valle Gesso is a valley in the Maritime Alps (south-western Alps), located in the Italian province of Cuneo and crossed by the Gesso torrent. The language...

an American artist, known for her fantasy medieval bas-relief murals in gesso. Burr made navigation and target charts for the American military during...

gesso and are ready for use straight away. Artists desiring greater control of their painting surface may add a coat or two of their preferred gesso....

dress and ornaments including the gesso work (gold covering), which is an important feature of Mysore painting. Gesso work was the hallmark of all traditional...

term meaning "pastework", is low relief decoration, normally modelled in gesso or white lead, applied to build up a surface that may then be gilded or...

Hope Street, Glasgow, where they produced book illustrations, embroidery, gesso panels, leaded glass and repoussé metalwork. Their innovative work was inspired...

painted with materials that allowed for regular alterations: tempera on gesso, pitch, and mastic. Due to the methods used, a variety of environmental...

Power Plant, also known as The Upper Gesso Plant, is a pumped-storage hydroelectric power station located in Valle Gesso just south of Entracque, Italy. The...

design on the lid, with the color red predominating. The elaborate gilded gesso of the cassoni was produced by skilled and expensive craftsmen. This work...

Sighicelli took action against a group active in Bologna. Marco Mattei of Gesso and friar Jacopo of Viterbo confessed to taking part in magical practices...

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reliable technique of fresco, had used tempera over a ground that was mainly gesso, resulting in a surface subject to mould and to flaking. Despite this, the...

or in the artists studio. Once the size had dried, layer upon layer of gesso would be applied, each layer sanded down before the next applied, sometimes...

a particular style of export lacquerware which was cut into a layer of gesso and then lacquered in colors. By the mid-17th century, trade with China...

rendering of Cennino Cennini's medieval gesso recipes. Donald Jackson, a British calligrapher, has sourced his gesso recipes from earlier centuries a number...

It is of an architectural type and of oak, and was covered with gilded gesso which long since disappeared. Passing from these historic examples we find...

painting is on two pieces of canvas, sewn together before starting, with a gesso ground tinted blue. There are differences to Botticelli's usual technique...

the cast to dry completely. Gesso can be painted onto the mask after drying to stop it absorbing moisture from the air. Gesso also works as a surface primer...

ground for canvas made from a thin layer of gesso atop sugar and starch glue. Adding soap and honey to make gesso more liquid was brought into Italy from...

plastics, vellum, leather, fabric, wood, and watercolor canvas (coated with a gesso that is specially formulated for use with watercolors). Watercolor paper...

Orchestra, formed in 2008. Also he is associated with his side acts Cajado, Gesso, Manos, Omitir and Forgotten Winter. Fausto's music is generally characterised...

but rather an uneven texture because of the wood, animal glue, ground or gesso, paint, binder used, etc. Since the elements used to create paintings vary...

canvases for oil painting. It has also been an ingredient in traditional gesso. In traditional oil painting as practiced by the Renaissance painter, skin...

in the Virgin of the Rocks. The work is prepared with a layer of white gesso and a layer of brownish underpaint. In general, the paint is evenly applied...

(polychrome) terracotta is typically first covered with a thin coat of gesso, then painted. It is widely used, but only suitable for indoor positions...

in the south-west of Piedmont, at the confluence of the rivers Stura and Gesso. Cuneo is bounded by the municipalities of Beinette, Borgo San Dalmazzo...

drilled in Torre Alfina, in the province of Viterbo (Lazio). The dam of Alto Gesso (Piedmont) was completed in 1982 as part of the hydroelectric power station...

Baroque angel, by Ignaz Günther, circa 1760–1770, lindenwood with traces of gesso, 26.7 x 18.4 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art Arquebusier Angels, hundreds...