Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A preparation of plaster of Paris and glue used as a base for low relief or as a surface for painting.
- noun A surface of gesso.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the fine arts: A prepared mass or surface of plaster, usually as a ground for painting.
- noun Hence, by extension— Any preparation applied to a surface to fit it to receive painting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Plaster of Paris, or gypsum, esp. as prepared for use in painting, or in making bas-reliefs and the like; by extension, a plasterlike or pasty material spread upon a surface to fit it for painting or gilding, or a surface so prepared.
- noun obsolete A work of art done in gesso.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a mixture of
plaster of Paris andglue used toprepare asurface forpainting
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun gypsum or plaster of Paris spread on a surface to make it suitable for painting or gilding (or a surface so prepared)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Before applying the silkscreens to the wood beveled panels, she coats them with rabbit skin gesso, which helps to create the wonderful sense of luminosity her paintings possess.
Quaytman Explores Terrain Between Text and Image in New SFMOMA Show Sophia Moreno-Bunge 2010
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The crow on the back is black gesso from a stencil i cut, highlighted with paint marker.
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Before applying the silkscreens to the wood beveled panels, she coats them with rabbit skin gesso, which helps to create the wonderful sense of luminosity her paintings possess.
Quaytman Explores Terrain Between Text and Image in New SFMOMA Show The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The crow on the back is black gesso from a stencil i cut, highlighted with paint marker.
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It has been suggested that she even introduced the Syrian practice of wearing wigs to the women of Rome, although several detachable marble hairpieces belonging to female sculptures from the early and mid-second century have been found, some with traces of a plaster adhesive called gesso that was presumably used to stick the marble wig to the head.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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Artists are familiar with yeso. .we call it gesso. esperanza
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Artists are familiar with yeso. .we call it gesso. esperanza
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Artists are familiar with yeso. .we call it gesso. esperanza
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Artists are familiar with yeso. .we call it gesso. esperanza
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Artists are familiar with yeso. .we call it gesso. esperanza
bilby commented on the word gesso
Italian - chalk.
May 19, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word gesso
"... breathing in the smell of the pictures—the smell of oils and charcoal, gesso, paper, canvas, linseed and turpentine, a full-bodied ghost that floated out of its wicker casket...."
—Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes (New York: Bantam Dell, 2005), 645
February 3, 2010