[Annotation Plans: Stuccos and Impromptu Masks]
WIP
Name: Nina Elizondo-Garza, Tenzin Dongchung
Process:
Step One of Plan: Re-create recipes for rye flour stucco, chalk stucco, plaster stucco that takes 15 days to make (if possible?) and lead white stucco* using wooden and metal molds
Step two of plan: In conjunction with Tenzin's papier mache research, experiment with making molds and impromptu masks out of papier mache/carton
*lead white is an ingredient of the third stucco recipe, but it is clearly used as a colorant to make the stucco whiter. It will be used in small quantities, and generally, the stucco we make using lead white will be small molds (possibly disposable ones?)
Recipes from MS Fr. 640
p029r_1 - Stucco for Molding.
Includes the recipe for both flour and chalk based stucco
p080_2 -Very Hard White stucco
This recipe has no instructions, features four ingredients, and one of them is ceruse.
p084r_a1 - Impromptu Masks
Instructions for 'life casting' using papier mache, as well as drying instructions, and ways to re-use the paper mache masks (crushing them up to re-use the powder for another papier mache product).
Schematic plan:
Check Cennini, Marciano, and Baldenucci(sp? From Jo's presentation on Monday Oct. 16)
Research the use of stucco in 'ephemera' and in permanent architecture and discern what they were made of in Early Modern period including what patterns/molds they used and what these would have been made of.
A cursory search on CLIO has revealed a plethora of books on historical stucco -- most of them are in Italian, which I can get through. Some of these discuss stucco, some include images/engravings of historical stucco, others include information on how best to repair/preserve historical stucco.
https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/5091178
https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/223233
https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/2625785
https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/158690
https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/12330490
https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/6302098
Required Ingredients - comments in brackets indicate there is none in the spreadsheet or other questions, etc.
Rye flour [will need more since there's none left according to the spreadsheet]
tragacanth gum
Chalk powder
Plaster (powder?) [of Paris?]
Linseed oil (unsure if normal, stand, etc)
Water
White Wax [white beeswax in inventory]
venice turpentine
eggshell
ceruse*
cotton cheese cloth
mortar and pestle
slab and muller
scale
rolling pin
I have metal and wooden molds I can bring (but I would like to be able to take them back once the experiment has concluded? Is this possible?)
*Obviously, ceruse is toxic, so I will draw up the safety protocols
- Describe your annotation plans
- List the recipes from MS Fr. 640 (and any other source) that you have identified so far (include full recipes if practical)
- Lay out a schematic plan for the historical, object-based, and hands-on research that will shed light on these recipes.
- List the materials you expect to need (are they in the lab inventory? See the Materials and Sourcing Reminders) where you will source them, and safety considerations.