stuccador(e
(ˈstʌkədɔə(r))
Also stuccodore.
[irreg. ad. It. stuccatore; cf. Sp. estucador.]
A worker in stucco. Cf. stuccoer.
| 1952 Archit. Rev. CXI. 201/3 Its Tapestry Room with Floral Zephyrs by James ‘Athenian’ Stuart and a Saloon with walls marvellously decorated by Italian stuccadores. 1956 Essays in Crit. VI. 324 The iconography of other eighteenth-century arts (Tiepolo's painting, the interior plasterwork of Dublin stuccodores), is still that of the High Renaissance. 1972 Canad. Antiques Collector Mar.–Apr. 15/1 The interiors..are as exuberant and varied as the stuccodores through seventy years of changing taste (1730–1800) could make them. 1973 Country Life 10 May 1306/2 The Schmuzer family..whose activity as mason-stuccadors persisted right into the Rococo period. 1978 A. Laing in A. Blunt et al. Baroque & Rococo iv. 241/1 In Bavaria it was a Wessobrunner stuccador, Joseph Schmuzer (1683–1752), who was most successful in creating a local practice as the architect of parish churches, extending his competence from stucco to masonry. |