Stucco: The Rococo's Secret Ingredient - Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 18 фев 2014
- Waldemar Januszczak takes us to the magnificent White Room in Wurzburg by Antonio Bossi, and interviews Thomas Salveter, master Bavarian stucco restorer.
This is a mini-episode from ZCZ Films' BBC4 documentary Rococo: Travel, Pleasure, Madness.
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I am in awe of the craftsmanship. Just imagine this was all created from water , powders and a trowel!
I was there three years ago and the reconstruction work they have done since WWII is amazing
Magnificent! So much of these creative artistic talents have just about gone. Back then they had more of the time, patients, and talent to accomplish such beauty.
less nobles paying for it too nowadays lol
Also me. I'm totally speechless. Breathtaking. Magnificent. Humble but also a bit jealous. This is totally sensory overload. Thanks for posting.
Its Crazy to think what those artists were capable of! I am an art student from swizerland and i just had the plesure to repair and redo one of the beautiful historism celings at Schloss Hünegg in Hilterfingen swizerland. Its so sad too think that these crafts ( wood carving, plaster work and stone work ) are slowly disapearing for ever. With the path I have chosen I hope to help the world preserve these timeless beautys and mabye to make new ones in the future.
I watched this some years ago and have been hunting for it for a couple of years.
Awesome glimpse at another world
I dont😢😢😢 know I could cry and joy watch this
My question would be: How would you get large amounts of stucco to stay on those high ceilings while they were drying? How could you stay up there and paint for any length of time? before getting dizzy, When they say Bossi finished the stucco in a short period of time, what was that time frame? What a genius, in the true sense of the word. I must look up his hard life, which expressed and imprinted it's self in such magnificent art.
i could watch this for years
I appreciate the choice of artwork to discuss and the presentation of its merits
I don't know that Waldy actually have his own channel🤗😍 glad to know this man from 'Perspective' channel☺💯
My father is a master plasterer. So I had to check this out. This is amazing, a true artist
Thank you so much for making these vids! :))
amazing beauty,art, and patience that will neve happen again, this is truly a mind bending artsy at it`s divine ecstasy
Wow, I learned so much... at least it seems that way to me.
Nice !
Thank you
Thank you : )
Это волшебство!!!
It's amazing how this restoration artist mixes the stucco solution without a precise formula. I wonder how that might affect the durability of the entire sculptural group if the consistency is variable. Perhaps this is not such a critical matter? // Looking at the enormous amount of convoluted imagery it is easy to imagine Bossi going crazy. He might have been sliding into madness as a result of the process, plus being up on scaffolds for long periods might have been a factor.
Antonio Giuseppe Bossi e seus sobrinhos Ludovico, Materno e Agostino trabalharam produzindo artes em Wurzburg. Pietro Luigi Bossi, seu irmão, também stuccatore produziu artes em Stuttgart. Benigno Bossi, figlio de Pietro, foi pintor, gravador, etc em Parma. Estou pesquisando minhas origens.
WoW!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Done freehand? Remarkable.
These stucco designs look like a mandelbox / 3D mandelbrot
Yes ! But what’s even more impressive is that it’s not digital but handmade from mud (!)
I'd like to know the exact ingredients
Mio nono Antonio Carlo Ludovico Paolo Bossi, nato in Ziano Piacentino, 1864.
I'm interested in the similarities of form between these stucco shapes and the carvings of grinling gibbons.
Wow
i cannot find much about this man online, even though he is so amazing. what happened to him? is there any information on why he went “mad”?
The image of which Geiger's work is the negative. Gnarly
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How do they clean this? Make sure they dont collect dust
А на русском нет такого видео?
😂 water, plaster,sand, and chalk.. the Rocco way.😂
That’s why they call it being the Boss!
Aka- bossi
Aka2- dont suck-o, stucco!
Re-aka- so maddening, get stuck on a psych ward
Thx - good watch, no more schlick
I feel like the white on white theme of the room does the craftsmanship a disservice. It's hard to appreciate the detail from a comfortable distance because it blends in to look like a mess of plaster on top of the white paint.
Possibile che non ci sia la traduzione in italiano.
it looks like tesselations
Hay guys need some help....I would like to start practicing ......So im I looking for PLASTER or JOINT COMPOUND....???
I'm going to see this room in person as one of my vacation stops is Wurzburg! Stucco is ok, but it reminds me of something a kid in school did for an art project.
Антонио босси на русском языке покажите просьба
Claustrophobia
Stucco is also cheaper. Like, way cheaper. It probably costs 10 times more to cover all these grand rooms in nice Carrara marble that can be easily sculpted. So why not go to something that looks just as nice, but is way cheaper--stucco!
And pure marble does not look nearly as nice when sculpted as stucco/staliogla
Marble is much cheaper now than labor required to make art like this. The opposite of back then.
Your comment shows lack of knowledge and express today's attitude against natural marble preference. Nobody would be able to carve such a complicated rocaille design in marble. Moreover you never know when natural stone shows you lines and ugly dark/patterned structure. With stucco all is under control. Marble wasn't so expensive back then - the transport of it was. That's why you have a lot of Marble (from Carrara) in Italy or in Germany (from Silesia). South Germany is full of stucco marvels made by artists from Wessobrunnen school. It doesn't matter what material artists use - amazing art work in wood, stucco or plexiglass can be much better than mediocre marble or alabaster statues.
Looks sinister to me
It is extremely beautiful but nonsense for the présenter to claim that this is as good as rococo stucco ever gets. There are hundreds of rooms throughout Italy, St Petersburg and elsewhere. I find the work here is elaborate but not compositionally well integrated within the room so it looks somewhat arbitrary than other examples where the whole room is a work of art in itself, the rococo decorations integrated rather than just auxiliary.
While the stucco work is dramatic, magnificent, awe inspiring and quiet unbelieveaby breath taking, on closer inspection can also be regarded as someone with a tortured frenzied mind, some of it quiet bazzar, on a tipping point between genius and mad man. I wonder if he had been born in todays time, whether he would had just just be given alot of meds to quiet his mind down and genius artitistic nature would never have bloomed.
A wonderful craftsman, but ponytails and middle-age don’t go together well, especially in the vicinity of male pattern baldness.
Who would carewhat you looked like if you had that kind of artistic talent? Someone who can do that kind of art, you would have a very specific ni'che in the art market.
Это волшебство!!!