Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is most commonly used as a decorative and protective cl
Baroque stucco on the ceiling of the Rotonde de Mars in the Louvre Palace, Paris, by Gaspard and Balthazard Marsy, 1658
Stucco used as an exterior coating on a residential building.
Rock dash stucco used as an exterior coating on a house on Canada's west coast. The chips of quartz, stone, and colored glass measure approx. 3–6 mm (1/8–1/4").
Fragment from a Roman relief; c. 138–161 AD; height: 8¼" (20.9 cm); Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)
Plaster is a building material typically used for cladding on interior walls, pool interiors, ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements. In English, "plaster" usually means a material
Stucco
…brick and adobe for decorative, protective and/or structural purposes. In English, "stucco" refers to a cladding for the outside of a building and "plaster" to a cladding for interiors. Other European languages, notably Italian, do not have the same distinction: In Italian, stucco means plaster, and serves…
plaster reliefs, such as this work at the Château de Fontainebleau, were hugely influential in Northern Mannerism. A plaster low-relief decorative frieze is above it.
Applying mud plaster to an outside wall
Clay plaster base coat on split oak lath held in place with straw and manure, covered with a lime plaster top coat, Old Economy Village, Pennsylvania (1827)
Lime setting-coat on clay plaster with straw binder. Applied to hand-split lath over a timber framed wall of a brick family house at Old Economy Village, Pennsylvania