Artwork and artists of Venetian Plaster

Artwork and artists of Venetian Plaster

Influence of Italian stuccowork art occurred specially in France, at Versailles and Fontainbleau royal palaces.

Baroque taste, so over-rich couldn't back off from welcome stuccowork art with greatest heat.

Extremely able artists gravitated toward major centers and most of them were lombard: at Rome Prospero Bresciano, S. Castelli, G. Ferrobosco; at Genova B. Bernasconi, G. De Marchi; at Venice G.A.Sala, S. Stazio; also to be reminded Francesco and Pompeo Bianchi from Ticino, Cosimo and Giacomo Fancelli, Antonio Raggi who worked with Bernini, and then G. Serpotta who left masterpieces in Palermo.

The greatest public, private and religious movements of this period bring trace of stuccowork great luck. Such as S.Mary of People Jesus and S.Giovanni in Laterano churches in Rome, Pitti Palace ceilings in Florence, Palazzo Ducale in Venice and also in Venice and surroundings many palaces, where decoration shaped and of ten polychromatic in soft colors, cheers up interiors and enhances chimney cowls, door promes, ceiling friezes, so to become essential eighteenth-century interior decoration element.

Stuccowork art had the last, but more sterm, triumphs during neoclassical period; excellent in terms of fancy and fine grace is lombard production on G. Albertotti design.