Venetian Plaster toward modern time

Venetian Plaster toward modern time

The premises had lower ceilings, were smaller and less light; anyhow the same was the will and desire by the owner or the renter to decorate own living space with color and feelings typical for the Venetian stuccowork, which was able to create right away colors, decorations and situations contributing to make their lives more comfortable and harmonious.

Whoever wish nowadays to define the expression Venetian stuccowork will find soon huge difficulties. The expression, a compound of the words 'stucco' and 'Venetian' is quoted almost nowhere and, anyhow, even if you could find it, it will look clear to you how hard to understand it and to apply it in any of its meanings would be.

The research doesn't improve even trying to follow-up the definitions of the single words nor searching in the library or book-stores.

The available information about Venetian stuccowork are quite fragmentary and mixed up, often incomplete and faint, let's try to understand why!

In the following pages we will keep working in order to give to 'Venetian stuccowork', and to other terms that we necessary have to use in order to describe it, an appropriate definition, so to make possible to understand evolution and value of this very ancient art.