Illustrated Architecture Dictionary
Illustrated Architecture Dictionary
Sgraffito
skra FEE toh, zgrah-
Plural: Sgraffiti
A type of decoration executed by covering a surface, as of plaster or enamel, of one color, with a thin coat of a similar material of another color, and then scratching or scoring through the outer coat to show the color beneath.
Sgraffito is Italian for "scratched."
Jozef Slawinski used four layers of colored plaster in his work.
Examples from Buffalo:
- Right illustration above: "Joseph Calasanctius Mural"
- Jozef Slawinski
Other examples:
- Left illustration above: Palazzo Medici Ricardi, Florence, Italy
- Palazzo Fenzi, Florence, Italy
- Palazzo Degli Angeli, Florence, Italy
- Sforza Castle, Milan, Italy
- Casa Museu Gaudí - Park Güell, Barcelona, Spain
- House At the Minute, Prague, Czech Republic
- Schwarzenberg Palace, Prague, Czech Republic
- Deanery, Cracow, Poland
