pastiglia

Noun

pastiglia (uncountable)

1. Low relief decoration, normally modelled in gesso or white lead, applied to build up a surface that may then be gilded or painted, or left plain.
   • But it was the white-lead pastiglia box that was closest to the cassone in both form and decoration.2005, Malcolm Bull, “Objects”, in The Mirror of the Gods: How Renaissance Artists Rediscovered the Pagan Gods, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 39
   • Sassetta was his example, but Berenson actually missed the only element in that artist’s oeuvre that can lay claim to Asian influence: the pastiglia in the frame of the San Sepolcro altarpiece, in which the pattern of intertwined morning glories with the buds and leaves seen from different points...2014, Carl Brandon Strehlke, “Bernard Berenson and Asian Art”, in Joseph Connors, Louis A[lexander] Waldman, editors, Bernard Berenson: Formation and Heritage, [Florence]: Villa I Tatti, The Harvard...