Gesso Definition

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gesso
noun
Plaster of Paris (or, now, chalk) mixed with glue and applied to flat or carved surfaces or as bas-reliefs, etc. and then painted, gilded, etc.
Webster's New World
A surface of gesso.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Gesso

Noun

Singular:
gesso
Plural:
gessos

Origin of Gesso

  • Italian from Latin gypsum gypsum gypsum

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowing from Italian gesso.

    From Wiktionary

Gesso Sentence Examples

  • Late Minoan art in its finest aspect is best illustrated by the animated ivory figures, wall paintings, and gesso duro reliefs at Cnossus, by the painted stucco designs at Hagia Triada, and the steatite vases found on the same site with zones in reliefs exhibiting life-like scenes of warriors, toreadors, gladiators, wrestlers and pugilists, and of a festal throng perhaps representing a kind of " harvest home."

  • Its name ("wedge") is due to its position on a hill between two streams, the Stura and the Gesso, with fine views of the mountains.

  • Golden acrylic Artists ' Products found in our on-line store Gesso Primer Formulated with 100% acrylic polymer emulsion.

  • This medium should be applied over an acrylic gesso primed surface.

  • Using acrylic with Clear gesso Base, you can make your own colored gesso.

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Words Starting With

GGEGES

Words Ending With

OSOSSO

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Words Starting With G and Ending With O

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