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...

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...

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...

artist incorporates the materials, natural and man-made fibres, paint, gesso, and precious metals (gold and silver leaf mostly), through the handcraft...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

"love Triangle," unique silver gelatin, acrylic polymer, gesso, epoxy resin, automotive finishes, wood, aluminium, composite panel, 40 x 60 x 2 inches...

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...

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

Genova (French: Cime Genova) is a mountain in the Maritime Alps in the upper Gesso valley, in the Italian province of Cuneo. Cime Genova is located near the...

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...

the medieval period, scribes and illuminators used it as an ingredient in gesso, which was applied to illuminated letters and gilded with gold in illuminated...

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...

father and others in the family emigrated from the Sicilian village of Gesso [it]. The name was anglicized to Jacobs about a month after the family entered...

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...

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...

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...

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...

of a female servant carrying provisions; 1981–1975 BC; painted wood and gesso; 112 × 17 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) Model of a sailboat;...

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