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Mar 11, 2023 15:53
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Italiano term
picottatura
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Durante le operazioni di descialbo, è stato rinvenuto in più punti un’antico strato di intonaco, con larghe picottature, steso direttamente sulla pietra.
From a description of restoration work on a monastery. I believe this is to do with the small holes chipped into walls (and frescoes) before they were plastered over but I may be wrong and in any case I cannot find the word for this in English.
Thanks in advance.
From a description of restoration work on a monastery. I believe this is to do with the small holes chipped into walls (and frescoes) before they were plastered over but I may be wrong and in any case I cannot find the word for this in English.
Thanks in advance.
Proposed translations
(Inglese)
5 | picottaura | NPutt |
4 | Staking/ pegging/ marking | Andrew Bramhall |
Proposed translations
21 min
Staking/ pegging/ marking
During the clean-up, an old layer of plaster, with large pits, was found in several places, laid directly on top of the stone (walls).
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Note added at 1 hr (2023-03-11 17:25:50 GMT)
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Hello Isabelle- what words have you found then?
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Note added at 1 hr (2023-03-11 17:25:50 GMT)
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Hello Isabelle- what words have you found then?
Note from asker:
Hello Andrew. Thanks for this. I can't find any examples of these words in this context, though. |
I haven't found any!! That's the problem. |
14 ore
picottaura
"small holes chipped into walls (and frescoes) before they were plastered over"... this is exactly the meaning. The purpose is to ensure good adhesion of the new plaster coat over the old. Search "picconatura affresco intonaco" to find various references. Insist picconatura and not "spicconatura", which is perhaps more a term of modern construction, a rougher kind of work, more demolition). Figure 9.1 in link "squarespace" offers a good example. A typical dimension of the holes is up to about 5 cm. Images in "artepiu" offer examples of many variations, unfortunately in very poor resolution. There is no known equivalent term in English; with my authors, we choose to leave it in Italian, with a footnote or (word of explanation). The pits are not "large", maybe "relatively large". The effect is more of "roughened surface", "surface roughened with many smill pits", rather than concentrating on the "pits" themselves. Here saying "large" would mean large in the scale of picconatura, which would prob. mean 5, 6, 7 cm. diam. The link provided by Persio of Netherlands is useful, but not a high-quality translation, not by mother-tongue English with technical knowledge.
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Note added at 14 hrs (2023-03-12 06:41:57 GMT)
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Sorry, misspelling ... picottatura.
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Note added at 14 hrs (2023-03-12 06:41:57 GMT)
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Sorry, misspelling ... picottatura.
Example sentence:
During the process of lime-wash removal, an older layer of plaster was found, applied directly to the rock, showing quite large signs of piccotatura (holes made by pick, roughening the surface).
Reference:
Note from asker:
Hello and thanks for this. But it is indeed very confusing and I can't find any reference to any of these various spellings online at all. |
Peer comment(s):
neutral |
philgoddard
: This is very confusing. Is it picottatura or picconatura?
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Discussion
that had been placed over the current fresco had been removed in the past.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresco
https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/picchiettatura/
https://wanderbeach.com/2021/08/03/abbazia-di-santa-maria-di...