VENETIAN PLASTER

Artwork and artists of Venetian Plaster

We can find true relief decorations in acient CNOSSO palaces at Creta (around 1.600 b.C.), in Etrurian Art at Alexandria of Egypt and of course in Roman art, that gives to us the most interesting samples in Roma itself ("Domus Aurea", so called Palatine Tiberio's home) and mainly at Pompeii, where decorations were often used to make interiors nicer and more rich, with grotesques (mythological characters woven with decors), together with painting decoration from which they direcly gets inspiration (Stabian Thermal baths, forum thermal baths).

There is no locking indeed also in reliefs with mythological scenes, animals, putti and grotesque masks (Rome, Major Door underground basilica, Valeris' burial ground, Pancrazis' grave, approxim. II century b.C.), finest works and refined design, that inspired our Renaissance artists.

Early Christian and later Ravenna arts take advantage from stuccowork for interior decorations: a typical one in Orthodox Church Members Baptistery (Ravenna V century).

During Middle Age we can mention rare examples of barbarian art, such as San Peter in Civate transemnae, Cividale relieves (S.Marta in Valley, VIII century) and those by Ciborio of St.Ambrous in Milan, golden and painted (IX century?).