| 21. | Modern acrylic " gesso " is made of titanium dioxide with an acrylic binder.
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| 22. | This was based in Gesso, near Lavino.
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| 23. | Gesso is made by mixing chalk or whiting in a rabbit-skin glue solution.
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| 24. | The Italians coated sanded wood with gesso, then glued linen on top of it.
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| 25. | They laid down the background color, then painted figures in tempera on the gesso.
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| 26. | It is frequently used on canvas, whereas real gesso is not suitable for canvas.
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| 27. | Acrylic gesso is very difficult to sand.
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| 28. | These crude retablos were coated with a gesso made with gypsum and rabbit skin glue.
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| 29. | He died in 1706, in Gesso.
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| 30. | He is attributed with the revival of gilding with gesso and gold leaf on vellum.
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