stucchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian stucchi.
Senses: examples: text: The draperies and features are modelled with the utmost nicety, even insomuch as to give the appearance of stucchi of the most careful and spirited execution.
ref: 1845 August, The Art-Union, Monthly Journal of the Fine Arts, and the Arts, Decorative, Ornamental, volume VII, London, page 270, column 3:
text: In a letter of February 16, 1563, Vasari (Carteggio, 1, pp. 713 ff) speaks of frescoes to be executed for the choir, for the four large lunettes at the top, for the four tondi and the four pendentives; he speaks also of stucchi in the second zone (probably in the rectangular fields above the smaller lunettes).
ref: 1969, Charles de Tolnay, Michelangelo: The Medici Chapel, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 168:
text: Cardinal del Monte, on the eve of his becoming Pope Julius III, built himself one of the most decorative palaces in Rome, later acquired by Cardinal Spada which, on account of its profusion of stucchi on the façade and in the courtyard, has been ascribed to Giulio Mazzoni. […] Richly decorative façade of Palazzo Podestà (1563), overlaid with ornamental stucchi and Mannerist motifs: […]
ref: 1971, Frederick M. Godfrey, Italian Architecture up to 1750, Tiranti, →ISBN, pages 235 and 317:
text: Above the whole were vaults all around, ten feet high, ornamented with marvelous narrative reliefs of stucchi and figures.
ref: 1978, Elisabeth B. MacDougall, editor, Fons Sapientiae: Renaissance Garden Fountains, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, →ISBN, page 80:
text: ([…] two plates, but he is otherwise accorded an equal quarter-share of the remainder of the stucchi.) […] It may be that Girardon followed Le Brun’s drawings more literally than either of the Marsy brothers for his stucchi in the Galerie d’Apollon. […] A cost estimate for the stucchi of the Galerie d’Apollon was drafted on 3 May 1663.
ref: 1983, Thomas F. Hedin, Gaspard Marsy, The Sculpture of Gaspard and Balthazard Marsy: Art and Patronage in the Early Reign of Louis XIV, with a Catalogue Raisonné, University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, pages 36, 37, and 114:
text: The fine stucchi of the walls and vault frame frescoes are by the Florentine painter Sebastiano Galeotti: […] The stucchi of the ceiling and walls were made by the workshop of Giovanni Marmori, who completed the work in the autumn of 1793.
ref: 1995, Castello di Rivoli, The Collection, Charta, →ISBN, pages 158 and 163:
text: Palladio described it thus in his Quattro Libri di Architettura: The first floor is at ground level behind, where a fountain with an infinity of stucchi and painted ornaments is cut into the neighbouring hill.
ref: 1996, Visions of Arcadia: European Gardens from Renaissance to Rococo, London: Aurum Press Ltd, →ISBN, page 31, column 2:
text: […] the internal vault which was 10 feet above the ground and decorated with marvelous stories of stucchi and figures; […]
ref: 1998, Eric Michael Wolf, The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Francesco di Giorgio Martini: A Study of Theory and Practice, Harvard University, page 161:
text: […] of stucchi and plasters, which has become essential for the successive scientific, photographic and graphic work.
ref: 2002, Agneta Freccero, Encausto and Ganosis: Beeswax as Paint and Coating During the Roman Era and Its Applicability in Modern Art, Craft and Conservation, Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, →ISBN, page 37:
text: […] with gilt stucchi and frescos of pagan myths. […] It has an inscription of the mid-III century, a graffito of a fish which may indicate some Christian membership and well-preserved stucchi. The tomb on the left, of which the name is unknown, also has well-preserved stucchi, but it has lost its mosaic floor as it was made into a way down to the lower level of the Catacombe. […] The elegant stucchi have architectural decorative details, figures of deities and scenes from mythology.
ref: 2002, Michael Oppenheimer, The Monuments of Italy: A Regional Survey of Art, Architecture and Archaeology from Classical to Modern Times, →ISBN, pages 169, 195, and 199:
text: The whole wide, long sweep of the room was decorated with paneled plasterwork done by the hand of the same eighteenth-century master craftsman who had worked in the stucchi.
ref: 2002, Paula Weideger, Venetian Dreaming, New York, N.Y.: Washington Square Press, Atria Books, →ISBN, page 146:
text: Nevertheless, despite the points that the question could suggest to historians of economics and technology, anyone who would like to consult a bibliography or find basic information about the magicians of stucchi or waxworks, geniuses of papier-mâché and virtuosos of lighting, the plumbers specialized in playful waterworks, the fireworks men capable of shooting off smoky images of vases, eagles, clocks, and swords, or the makers of ice, sugar, butter, and marzipan sculptures, would have a hard time finding any information, given that there are few writings, and these are frequently of an anecdotal type that does not do justice to the subject.
ref: 2011, Guido Guerzoni, translated by Amanda George, Apollo & Vulcan: The Art Markets in Italy, 1400–1700, East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University Press, →ISBN:
text: Luca della Robbia, Madonna and child. “of an unusual delicate blue color and the finest glaze is the original after which so many stucchi and stone imitations have been made (already before 1450)”.
ref: 2020, Fulvia Zaninelli, “The Interesting Case of Alessandro Contini Bonacossi (1878–1955) and Wilhelm von Bode (1845–1929)”, in Lynn Catterson, editor, Florence, Berlin and Beyond: Late Nineteenth-Century Art Markets and Their Social Networks, Leiden; Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, part 3 (Dealers for Dealers), page 300:
glosses: plural of stucco