Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The last coat of plaster laid on a wall as a ground for fresco-painting.
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Examples
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The loosened _intonaco_ is found by tapping lightly on the wall: plaster is then slipped underneath and the painting firmly pressed to its place.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various
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The carpenters and plasterers Michael Angelo employed would soon learn to perform the more mechanical part of his work, such as laying the intonaco, pricking the cartoons, and grinding colours, and as they could not have inserted into the work any tradition contrary to the new manner of the artist, would be preferred by him to second-rate artist assistants; no doubt, too, the boy he employed in household work would be made to help.
Michael Angelo Buonarroti Charles Holroyd 1889
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Dateci qualche cosa da sfregiare, Un intonaco, la Gioconda, Un parafango, una pietra tombale.
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Dateci qualche cosa da sfregiare, Un intonaco, la Gioconda, Un parafango, una pietra tombale.
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Dateci qualche cosa da sfregiare, Un intonaco, la Gioconda, Un parafango, una pietra tombale.
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Dateci qualche cosa da sfregiare, Un intonaco, la Gioconda, Un parafango, una pietra tombale.
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Andrea introduced the practice of covering the façades of houses and palaces with an intonaco of lime mixed with the black of ground charcoal, or rather, burnt straw, on which intonaco, when still fresh, he spread a layer of white plaster.
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto Giorgio Vasari 1542
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The fresco steps that I teach the kids are: making a cartoon, poking holes in the cartoon for pouncing, applying the intonaco coat of plaster on their tile, pouncing and painting.
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Then, having drawn the grotesques, with such divisions as he desired, on some cartoons, he dusted them over the intonaco, and proceeded to scratch it with an iron tool, in such a way that his designs were traced over the whole façade by that tool; after which, scraping away the white from the grounds of the grotesques, he went on to shade them or to hatch a good design upon them with the same iron tool.
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto Giorgio Vasari 1542
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The consecration affects the entire building, but especially the walls; the removal, therefore, of the anointed crosses or even of the interior plastering (intonaco) of the walls, does not necessitate a new consecration (C.S.R.,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
qms commented on the word intonaco
It’s Banksy I hear who in Monaco
Installed a big fresco ironical.
At night it evinces
Affection for princes,
In daylight it fades to intonaco.
December 20, 2018