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6834 - Milano - San Vito in Pasquirolo - Fiammenghini - Stucchi e affreschi - Foto Giovanni Dall'Orto, 15-Feb-2008
Milan, Italy: inside view of the church of San Vito in Pasquirolo. Detail: stuccos by the Fiammenghini brothers

Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as a decorative coating for walls and ceilings, and as a sculptural and artistic material in architecture. Stucco may be used to cover less visually appealing construction materials, such as metal, concrete, cinder block, or clay brick and adobe.

In English, "stucco" usually refers to a coating for the outside of a building and "plaster" to a coating for interiors; as described below, the material itself is often little different. However, other European languages, notably including Italian, do not have the same distinction; stucco means plaster in Italian and serves for both. This has led to English-speakers sometimes using "stucco" for interior decorative plasterwork in relief.

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  • Stucco wall

    Stucco used as an exterior coating on a residential building.

  • Czestochowa-bazylika

    Baroque stucco decorations of the main nave of the Jasna Góra Monastery basilica, 1693–1695

  • Stuc à la chaux, sgraffito, Stéphane Baron

    Applying stucco

  • Stuc Marmorino-Stéphane Baron.fr

    A wall finished with a stucco overlay, called tadelakt

  • SDSU dean residence rammed-earth wall, W end damage 1

    Damaged stucco that has begun to delaminate from its masonry substrate.

  • Architect and engineer (1922) (14594575098)

    Diagram showing the use of wire mesh as a substrate for an exterior application of Portland cement.

  • Stucco relief fragment MET DP123867

    Fragment from a Roman relief; circa 138-161 AD; height: 20.9 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)

  • Afghanistan, Gandhara, Hadda, late Kushan Period - Seated Buddha - 1967.39 - Cleveland Museum of Art

    Statue of seated Buddha; circa 300s; overall: 36.9 cm; from Hadda (Afghanistan); Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, Ohio, USA)

  • Wall panel depicting Ix K'an Bolon (Lady Precious Nine), Maya, Pomona, Tabasco state, Late Classic period, c. 790 AD, limestone, stucco, paint - Dallas Museum of Art - DSC04642

    Maya wall panel depicting Ix K'an Bolon; circa 790 AD (Late Classic period); limestone, stucco and paint; from Pomona (Tabasco, Mexico) Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, Texas, USA)

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