The "lacquer" ware of Kurnool has been said to be perhaps the finest Indian gesso work produced anywhere.
A medal was awarded to him for his gesso ware at the Delhi Exhibition, but it was, in colouring, inferior to that of the collection which was sent to the Indo-Colonial Exhibition in 1886.
You must now prepare a plaster for fine grounds, called gesso sottile.
How to prepare gesso sottile (slaked plaster of Paris) for grounding panels.
Then you must have a paint that is a sort of gesso, called asiso, and it is made in this manner; namely, a little gesso sottile [see chap.
Throw away the water, make it into cakes, and let it dry; and this gesso is sold by the druggists to our painters.
The establishment of this fact is of the greatest importance, for the whole question of the true function and use of the gesso ground hangs upon it.
Indeed, for miniature art, gessopossesses innumerable advantages not presented by any other medium, but it is hardly available for larger works.
As regards grounds, I believe that all Perugino's panel pictures are upon gesso laid upon panel, but in many of them it seems to me that linen has been used between the panel and the gesso as if to bind them together.
There, during that time, he cast in gesso nearly all the figures of marble by the hand of Michelagnolo that are in the new sacristy of S.
Besides the horse, he has in that beautiful and most commodious habitation, as has been told in another place, as many casts in gesso as he has been able to obtain of famous works in sculpture and casting, both ancient and modern.
From the principal door one enters by a passage into a courtyard, in the centre of which, upon four columns, is the horse with the statue of Marcus Aurelius, cast in gesso from the original which is in the Campidoglio.
This is to be painted on to the gesso ground just mentioned, and when quite dry, burnished with an agate.
In the British Museum is a wonderful example of a wooden shield, painted on a gesso ground, the subject being a Knight kneeling before a lady, and the motto: "Vous ou la mort.
Gesso sottile was plaster of Paris that had been thoroughly slaked by long soaking in water so that it had lost all its setting properties.
The pala of the high-altar, a panel painting on gesso ground, the Virgin and Child seated, on the right S.
Both frame and picture are in a bad state, the gessohaving scaled off in places.
Gesso ornamentation, in which the broken pediment form has taken a somewhat fanciful shape.
Gesso ornament, to which, however, little justice can be done in a photograph.
The plaster, in this case, is to be considered as the gesso ground on panel or canvas.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gesso" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
