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Definition of Sgraffitos

Sgraffito
Sgraffito Sgraf*fi"to, a. [It.] (Paint.) Scratched; -- said of decorative painting of a certain style, in which a white overland surface is cut or scratched through, so as to form the design from a dark ground underneath.

Meaning of Sgraffitos from wikipedia

- Sgraffito (Italian: [zɡrafˈfiːto]; pl. sgraffiti) is an artistic or decorative technique of scratching through a coating on a hard surface to reveal parts...
- Sgraffito at the Lambert Sevart weapons factory, in Liege (Belgium) (early 20th century)....
- eventually destro**** by the Ottomans. The city produced multicolored sgraffito ceramics, jewelry and ironware. In 1382/1383 or 1385, Sredets was seized...
- (1897–98) Sgraffito by Cauchie on the Rue Malibran/Malibranstraat (1900) Sgraffito by Cauchie on his residence and studio (1905) Sgraffito panel in the...
- House by Gustave Strauven (1903) Cauchie House by Paul Cauchie (1905) Sgraffito panel in the Cauchie House Stoclet Palace by Josef Hoffmann (1911) Art...
- (1901–1903) House of the architect Paul Cauchie in Brussels, featuring sgraffito (1905) Belgium was an early centre of Art Nouveau, thanks largely to the...
- windows, balconies, portals and ornamental balustrades. Ceiling frescos, sgraffito, plafonds and coffering (patterned ceilings; Polish kaseton; from Italian...
- very little medieval paint has survived. As well as painting, scratched sgraffito techniques were often used. This involved painting a colour over pot metal...
- statues Odin (1812/1822) and Odin (1824/1825) by Hermann Ernst Freund, the sgraffito over the entrance of Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth (1874) by R. Krausse...
- terracotta embellishments were again the work of Godfrey Sykes, although sgraffito was used to decorate the east side of the building designed by F. W. Moody...