stucco

A mixture of gypsum, powdered lime, sand, glue, and water, used for the plastic decoration of the walls of buildings. The mixture itself can be coloured, but it can also be painted or gilded after it dries. From the time of the Renaissance, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the stucco was a very important method for the decoration of interiors. From the seventeenth century, some beautiful examples can be seen in Hungary in the St. Ignatius church in Győr, in the great hall of the castle of Sárvár, and in the St. George church in Sopron. Other examples from the territory of former Royal Hungary were also preserved in churches (Nagyszombat/Trnava, Slovakia; Lorettom/Loretto, Austria; Boldogasszony/Frauenkirche, Austria; Vágújhely/Nové Mesto nad Váhom, Slovakia) and châteaux (Borostyánkő/Bernstein, Austria; Vöröskő/Červený Kameň, Slovakia; etc.).

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