----- Original Message ----- From: Fernando Cabral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tony Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Roger Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Luke Coletti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Guido Flamini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sundial Mail List <[email protected]>; Woody Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 9:43 PM Subject: Re: Drawing hour lines
Fernando wrote : > Could it be "sgraffito"? I think "sgraffire" means "to scratch", hence... > But the Italians should have the last word. > > - fernando Hallo, Sgraffito is a Technology of painting on house walls. It is in Germany and Austria since the 14. Century. In Italy, this technology was applied in the Renaissance. With this wall painting, a stained finery is covered with another finery-layer. On this still moist layer, the lines of the representation are out-scratched until on the low layer. Sgraffito is therefore scratch-painting. In Austria, there very much wall sundials produced with Sgraffito. In attachment : sundial in Gmünd, Lower - Austria. Karl Schwarzinger Austria 47° 14' North 11° 27' East http://www.tirol.com/sundial/ Attachment converted: MAC Hard Disk:a_0277.jpg (JPEG/JVWR) (00018079)
