The floors are of marble mosaic, the sides of green or purple scagliola and the vaulted ceilings covered with raised ornaments on a ground of gold.
The walls are of scagliola marble and the ceilings ornamented brilliantly in fresco.
I have been desired to write to you for two scagliola tables; will you get them?
Scagliola is a composition, which was made only at Florence by Father Hugford, an Irish friar.
I am vastly obliged to you for the thought of the book of shells, and shall like -it much; and thank you too about my Scagliola table; but I am distressed about your expenses.
The commission for the scagliola tables was given me without any dimensions; I suppose there is a common size.
In the interior of this temple is a large black sarcophagus, resting on pedestals of Scagliola marble.
Its floor is the richest mosaic of wood of different colors, the sides are of polished scagliola marble, and the ceiling a dazzling mixture of sculpture, painting and gold.
The sides of the library are adorned by Scagliola pilasters and arched recesses, which contain the books.
The interstices between the arches and the ceiling are painted in imitation of marble, so extremely like that though they touch the Scagliolait is next to impossible to distinguish any difference.
The dicromi, or yellow figures on a black ground, in imitation of the Etruscan vases, are now most admired in scagliola work; and as the art is one easy of attainment, we shall describe it.
I arose, ascended the flights of stairs that conducted to the Boulevard-like gallery, and I began to thread my way behind the scagliola columns.
The entrance-hall had a screen of Roman-Ionic scagliola columns with gilt capitals, and a cupola of gilding and stained glass.
The noble Hall, 35 feet broad by 57 feet long, is divided by scagliolacolumns and pilasters, the capitals copied from the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates.
The little furniture the room contained was collected around the marchesa, forming a species of oasis on the broad desert of the scagliola floor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scagliola" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
