stucco

Examples of stucco in the following topics:

• Nayak Architecture

  • Among the main characteristics are the long corridors; the carved hundred-pillared and thousand-pillared mandapas (outdoor temple halls or porches); and the high, multi-storied gopurams (towers adorning the entrance of a temple), richly decorated with brightly-painted stone and stucco statues of animals, gods, and demons.
  • The structure was constructed using foliated brickwork and the surface details finished in stucco mixed from shell lime and egg whites to provide a smooth and glossy texture.
  • Gopurams from the Nayak Period are adorned with brightly-painted stucco statues of gods and goddesses, demons, and animals, both real and mythical.

• Palladio

  • Many of his buildings are of brick covered with stucco.
  • Stuccoed brickwork was always used in his villa designs in order to portray his interpretations of the Roman villa typology.
  • He often used Mannerist elements such as stucco surface reliefs and large columns often extending two-stories high .

• Greco-Buddhist Art

  • Stucco as stone was widely used by sculptors in Gandhāra for the decoration of monastic and cult buildings.
  • Stucco provided the artist with a medium of great plasticity, enabling a high degree of expressiveness to be given to the sculpture.
  • Sculpting in stucco was popular wherever Buddhism spread from Gandhāra: India, Afghanistan, Central Asia, and China.

• Deconstructivism

  • This subverts the functional aspects of modernist simplicity while taking modernism, particularly the international style, of which its white stucco skin is reminiscent, as a starting point.

• Architecture of the Mughal Period

  • The exterior decorations of the Taj Mahal include calligraphy, abstract forms, verses from the Koran, and vegetable motifs, executed in paint, stucco, carvings, and pietra dura work.
  • During Aurangzeb's reign (1658 - 1707), brick and rubble with stucco ornamentation replaced squared stone and marble as the building materials of choice.

• Geometric Symbolism

  • The Alhambra palace in Granada, Spain is a famous example of repeating motifs which occur in the tile and stucco decoration .
  • The Alhambra palace in Granada, Spain is a famous example of repeating geometrical motifs which occur in the tile and stucco decoration.

• American Art Deco Architecture

  • Common characteristics of Streamline Moderne included horizontal orientation, rounded edges, corner windows, glass blocks, porthole windows, chrome hardware, smooth exterior wall surfaces (usually stucco), horizontal wall grooves, and subdued colors.

• Thai Buddhist Sculpture

  • Ayutthaya sculptures were executed in stone, bronze, and brick and stucco.

• Urbino

  • In high, plainly stuccoed rooms the richly sculptured doorways, chimneys, and friezes created by Barocci, Domenico Rosselli, and their workshops stand out.

• Architecture in the Vijayanagar Empire

  • Vijayanagar temples are surrounded by strong enclosures and characterized by ornate pillared kalyanamandapa (marriage halls); tall rayagopurams (carved monumental towers at the entrance of the temple) built of wood, brick, and stucco in the Chola style; and adorned with life-sized figures of gods and goddesses.