When left un-burnished, Venetian plaster has a matte finish that is rough and stone-like to the touch.

Un-burnished Venetian plaster is also very brittle and damages rather easily.

Venetian plaster can be tinted, or colored using natural or synthetic colorants.

London now focuses on water color and charcoal over Venetian plaster on canvass.

Many Russian church walls, he said, are made of Venetian plaster.

Stucco Veneziano, better known as Venetian plaster, looks and feels like stone.

Venetian plaster, which gives a surface the look of an aged European wall, is durable, lustrous and never needs repainting.

Marmorino is well known as a classic Venetian plaster; however, its origins are much older, dating to ancient Roman times.

The second story has back stage dressing rooms and the theater lobby, painted in Venetian plaster with a mural showing the building.

"Venetian plaster typically features big swooping gestures, and that's not at all what we wanted," he says.