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Scagliola, the Glossary

Scagliola (from the Italian scaglia, meaning "chips") is a type of fine plaster used in architecture and sculpture.^[1]

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Adhesive

Adhesive, also known as glue, cement, mucilage, or paste, is any non-metallic substance applied to one or both surfaces of two separate items that binds them together and resists their separation.

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Allen County Courthouse (Indiana)

The Allen County Courthouse is located at the block surrounded by Clinton/Calhoun/Main/Berry Streets in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana, the county seat of Allen County.

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Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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Animal glue

Animal glue is an adhesive that is created by prolonged boiling of animal connective tissue in a process called rendering.

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Apsley House

Apsley House is the London townhouse of the Dukes of Wellington.

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APT Bulletin

APT Bulletin is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Association for Preservation Technology International.

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Architecture

Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction.

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Bad Staffelstein

Bad Staffelstein is a town in the Bavarian Administrative Region of Upper Franconia in Germany.

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Baluster

A baluster is an upright support, often a vertical moulded shaft, square, or lathe-turned form found in stairways, parapets, and other architectural features.

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Baroque architecture

Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the early 17th century and gradually spread across Europe.

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Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers

The Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (German: Basilika Vierzehnheiligen) is a church located near the town of Bad Staffelstein near Bamberg, in Bavaria, southern Germany.

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Beeswax

Beeswax (also known as cera alba) is a natural wax produced by honey bees of the genus Apis.

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Belcourt of Newport

Belcourt is a former summer cottage designed by architect Richard Morris Hunt for Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont and located on Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island.

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Benjamin Dean Wyatt

Benjamin Dean Wyatt (1775–1852) was an English architect, part of the Wyatt family.

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Breccia

Breccia is a rock composed of large angular broken fragments of minerals or rocks cemented together by a fine-grained matrix.

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Erie County.

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Cathedral of Saint Helena

The Cathedral of Saint Helena is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena, Montana, United States.

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Central Library (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)

The Central Library is the headquarters for the Milwaukee Public Library System as well as for the Milwaukee County Federated Library System.

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Padula Charterhouse, in Italian Certosa di Padula (or Certosa di San Lorenzo di Padula), is a large Carthusian monastery, or charterhouse, located in the town of Padula, in the Cilento National Park, in Southern Italy.

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Coade stone

Coade stone or Lithodipyra or Lithodipra is stoneware that was often described as an artificial stone in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum

The Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum is located at 215 S. Tejon Street in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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Colorado Springs, Colorado

Colorado Springs is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Colorado, United States.

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Dropmore Park

Dropmore Park is a private estate located along Dropmore Road, north of Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England, about in size.

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Ersatz good

An ersatz good is a substitute good, especially one that is considered inferior to the good it replaces.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Florence

Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.

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Fort Wayne, Indiana

Fort Wayne is a city in and the county seat of Allen County, Indiana, United States.

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French Lick Resort

French Lick Resort is a resort complex in the Midwestern United States, located in the towns of West Baden Springs and French Lick, Indiana.

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Ham House

Ham House is a 17th-century house set in formal gardens on the bank of the River Thames in Ham, south of Richmond in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

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Horace Walpole

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician.

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House of Medici

The House of Medici was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first consolidated power in the Republic of Florence under Cosimo de' Medici during the first half of the 15th century.

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Inlay

Inlay covers a range of techniques in sculpture and the decorative arts for inserting pieces of contrasting, often colored materials into depressions in a base object to form ornament or pictures that normally are flush with the matrix.

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Isinglass

Isinglass is a form of collagen obtained from the dried swim bladders of fish.

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Italian language

Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Jasper

Jasper, an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or cryptocrystalline chalcedony and other mineral phases, is an opaque, impure variety of silica, usually red, yellow, brown or green in color; and rarely blue.

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Kansas State Capitol

The Kansas State Capitol, known also as the Kansas Statehouse, is the building housing the executive and legislative branches of government for the U.S. state of Kansas.

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Kedleston Hall

Kedleston Hall is a neo-classical manor house owned by the National Trust, and seat of the Curzon family, located in Kedleston, Derbyshire, approximately 4 miles (6 km) north-west of Derby.

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Kempten

Kempten ((Swabian German)) is the largest town of Allgäu, in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany.

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Linseed oil

Linseed oil, also known as flaxseed oil or flax oil (in its edible form), is a colourless to yellowish oil obtained from the dried, ripened seeds of the flax plant (Linum usitatissimum).

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Marble

Marble is a metamorphic rock consisting of carbonate minerals (most commonly calcite (CaCO3) or dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2)) that have crystallized under the influence of heat and pressure.

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Marbleizing

Marbleizing (also spelt marbleising) or faux marbling is the preparation and finishing of a surface to imitate the appearance of polished marble.

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Marmorino

Marmorino Veneziano is a type of plaster or stucco. Scagliola and Marmorino are building materials, Craft materials, Plastering and Wallcoverings.

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Mississippi State Capitol

The Mississippi State Capitol or the “New Capitol,” has been the seat of the state’s government since it succeeded the old statehouse in 1903.

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Newport, Rhode Island

Newport is a seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island, United States.

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Paint

Paint is a material or mixture that, when applied to a solid material and allowed to dry, adds a film-like layer.

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Pietra dura

Pietra dura or pietre dure (see below), called parchin kari or parchinkari (پرچین کاری) in the Indian Subcontinent, is a term for the inlay technique of using cut and fitted, highly polished colored stones to create images.

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Plaster

Plaster is a building material used for the protective or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements. Scagliola and Plaster are building materials, Plastering and Wallcoverings.

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Polished plaster

Polished plaster is a term for the finish of some plasters and for the description of new and updated forms of traditional Italian plaster finishes. Scagliola and Polished plaster are building materials.

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Pumice

Pumice, called pumicite in its powdered or dust form, is a volcanic rock that consists of extremely vesicular rough-textured volcanic glass, which may or may not contain crystals.

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Resident minister

A resident minister, or resident for short, is a government official required to take up permanent residence in another country.

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Rialto Square Theatre

The Rialto Square Theatre is a theater in Joliet, Illinois (U.S.). Opening in 1926, it was originally designed and operated as a vaudeville movie palace, but it now houses mainly musicals, plays, concerts, and standup comedy.

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Robert Adam

Robert Adam (3 July 17283 March 1792) was a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer.

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Robert Walpole

Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British Whig politician who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1721 to 1742.

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Rotten stone

Rotten stone, sometimes spelled as rottenstone, also known as tripoli, is fine powdered porous rock used as a polishing abrasive for metalsmithing and in woodworking.

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Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.

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Shea's Performing Arts Center

Shea's Performing Arts Center (originally Shea's Buffalo) is a theater for touring Broadway musicals and special events in Buffalo, New York.

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Silk

Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles.

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St. Lorenz Basilica

St.

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St. Louis Union Station

St.

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Syon House

Syon House is the west London residence of the Duke of Northumberland.

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Terrazzo

Terrazzo is a composite material, poured in place or precast, which is used for floor and wall treatments.

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The Vyne

The Vyne is a Grade I listed 16th-century country house in the parish of Sherborne St John, near Basingstoke, in Hampshire, England.

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Topeka, Kansas

Topeka is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County.

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Trowel

A trowel is a small hand tool used for digging, applying, smoothing, or moving small amounts of viscous or particulate material. Scagliola and trowel are Plastering.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Verd antique

Verd antique (obsolete French, from Italian, verde antico, "ancient green"), also called verde antique, marmor thessalicum, or Ophite, is a serpentinite breccia popular since ancient times as a decorative facing stone.

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Wood

Wood is a structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. Scagliola and wood are building materials.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scagliola

Also known as Scagiola, Stuckmarmor.

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