Stucco: The Rococo's Secret Ingredient - Part 1
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- 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
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.
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.
Several reasons: They could be built up slowly in layers, allowing each to dry somewhat prior to the next layer being applied. There could also be metal wires inside them tied to nails which were hammered into the wall, or for really large ones, there could be a hollow frame of wood.
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.
I watched this some years ago and have been hunting for it for a couple of years.
Awesome glimpse at another world
i could watch this for years
My father is a master plasterer. So I had to check this out. This is amazing, a true artist
amazing beauty,art, and patience that will neve happen again, this is truly a mind bending artsy at it`s divine ecstasy
I don't know that Waldy actually have his own channel🤗😍 glad to know this man from 'Perspective' channel☺💯
I appreciate the choice of artwork to discuss and the presentation of its merits
Thank you
Thank you so much for making these vids! :))
Wow, I learned so much... at least it seems that way to me.
Thank you : )
Это волшебство!!!
Nice !
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.
Mio nono Antonio Carlo Ludovico Paolo Bossi, nato in Ziano Piacentino, 1864.
Done freehand? Remarkable.
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.
I dont😢😢😢 know I could cry and joy watch this
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”?
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.
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.
Wow
WoW!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
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'm interested in the similarities of form between these stucco shapes and the carvings of grinling gibbons.
The image of which Geiger's work is the negative. Gnarly
😂 water, plaster,sand, and chalk.. the Rocco way.😂
I'd like to know the exact ingredients
How do they clean this? Make sure they dont collect dust
❤️❤️❤️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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
Possibile che non ci sia la traduzione in italiano.
А на русском нет такого видео?
it looks like tesselations
Hay guys need some help....I would like to start practicing ......So im I looking for PLASTER or JOINT COMPOUND....???
Антонио босси на русском языке покажите просьба
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.
Claustrophobia
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!!!