Plastering

thumb|350px|The Creation of Adam, a detail of the fresco [[Sistine Chapel ceiling by Michelangelo]]

calcium oxide or hydroxide

thumb|Stucco 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.]]

thumb|upright=1.8|Baroque architecture|Baroque stucco on the ceiling of the Rotonde de Mars in the [[Louvre Palace, Paris, by Gaspard and Balthazard Marsy, 1658]]

thumb|Palazzo Massimo Istoriato: a fading palace facade in Rome by [[Polidoro da Caravaggio and Maturino da Firenze, 1523]] thumb|alt=Artist from Pedraza creates a sgraffito mural at the Casa de los Picos School of Art and Design, Segovia|Artist from Pedraza, Segovia|Pedraza creates a sgraffito mural at the [[Casa de los Picos School of Art and Design, Segovia]] thumb|Layers of 1910 Sgraffito in Pirgy ([[Chios)]]

upright=1.2|thumb|Masonry trowel A trowel is a small hand tool used for digging, applying, smoothing, or moving small amounts of viscous or particulate material. Common varieties include the masonry trowel, garden trowel, and float trowel.

building technique using woven wooden supports packed with clay or mud

thumb|300px|Italian scagliola top, second half of the 18th century

thumb|A tadelakt-covered wall

mouldable mass, for filling recesses in surfaces, applied to various materials with a spatula

mortar mix of sand and cement for walls

thumb|upright=1.35|The tools used to plaster walls Plasterwork is construction or ornamentation done with plaster, such as a layer of plaster on an interior or exterior wall structure, or plaster decorative moldings on ceilings or walls. This is also sometimes called pargeting. The process of creating plasterwork, called plastering or rendering, has been used in building construction for centuries. For the art history of three-dimensional plaster, see stucco.

carved figures from the Seljuk Empire

building process

type of plaster composed of sand, water, and lime

refined type of plasterwork used in the interiors of houses

thumb|Marmorino stucco.

thumb|Example of spray fireproofing, using a gypsum based plaster in a low-rise industrial building in Vancouver, British Columbia. Intonaco is an Italian term for the final, very thin layer of plaster on which a fresco is painted. The plaster is painted while still wet, in order to allow the pigment to penetrate into the intonaco itself. An earlier layer, called arriccio, is laid slightly coarsely to provide a key for the intonaco, and must be allowed to dry, usually for some days, before the final very thin layer is applied and painted on. In Italian the term intonaco is also used much more

Type of plaster