Illustrated Architecture Dictionary
Illustrated Architecture Dictionary
Sgraffito
skra FEE toh, zgrah-
Plural: Sgraffiti
A type of decoration executed by covering a surface, as of plaster or enamel, of one color, with a thin coat of a similar material of another color, and then scratching or scoring through the outer coat to show the color beneath.
Jozef Slawinski used four layers of colored plaster in his work.
Sgraffito is Italian for "scratched."
Examples from Buffalo:
- Right illustration above: St. Calasanctius Mural, by Jozef Slawinski Outdoor mural
Other examples:
- Left illustration above: Jamestown Settlement Bowl
- Schwarzenberg Palace, Prague, Czech Republic Exterior sgraffito
- Deanery, Cracow, Poland Exterior sgraffito
- St. Paul's Cathedral, London Exterior sgraffito
- House At the Minute, Prague, Czech Republic Exterior sgraffito
