PROJECT

“Resta di stucco” in Italian means “Left in amazement”. This project aims to introduce the greater public to the works created in their homeland by stucco masters from Italian Switzerland who enjoyed great success throughout Europe.

The “Resta di stucco” interactive website, the sites of exemplary stucco decorations that make up the distributed “museum” and the events proposed here provide access to a valuable wealth of knowledge developed by researchers from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), who have investigated the historical, artistic and religious value of these works, studied the artists who created them, their itinerant lives and the organisation of their work, and analysed the materials used and the skills required to transform just a few simple and basic ingredients into precious decorations that look as though they were made of marble.
Through the descriptions of the stucco decorations, available in the audio guide and on the interactive website, you can learn about how these works were realised, observing them through the eyes of experts who are used to “reading” materials and recognising the modus operandi of different artists.