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incartate

English translation: decorative paper (covering the beams, walls, and.....)

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Italian term or phrase:incartate
English translation:decorative paper (covering the beams, walls, and.....)
Entered by: Tom in London

10:13 Feb 15, 2016
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Archaeology / guida museo
Italian term or phrase: incartate
Dell’antica decorazione sono rimaste le incartate che ricoprono le travi e alle pareti, parati e frustuli di decorazione pittorica degli inizi del XX secolo.
franzine
Italy
decorative paper (covering the beams, walls, and.....)
Explanation:
"Ad incartate" was a decorative technique used to cover wooden ceilings and other wooden parts of buildings, extensively used in Naples beginning from the middle of the seventeenth century. It was applied in two layers:

The "sottocarta" (a first layer of waste paper glued directly to the wood surface) followed by the decorative "incartata" (applied over the first layer).

Good examples here:

http://tinyurl.com/hcwxgy7

I don't know if there is a more exact technical term in English.


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Note added at 1 hr (2016-02-15 11:28:05 GMT)
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I think the technique is still used (though in an updated and much simplified version). Certainly as your text says, it was still being used at the beginning of the 20th cent.
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Tom in London
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Local time: 05:16
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4 +2decorative paper (covering the beams, walls, and.....)
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decorative paper (covering the beams, walls, and.....)


Explanation:
"Ad incartate" was a decorative technique used to cover wooden ceilings and other wooden parts of buildings, extensively used in Naples beginning from the middle of the seventeenth century. It was applied in two layers:

The "sottocarta" (a first layer of waste paper glued directly to the wood surface) followed by the decorative "incartata" (applied over the first layer).

Good examples here:

http://tinyurl.com/hcwxgy7

I don't know if there is a more exact technical term in English.


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Note added at 1 hr (2016-02-15 11:28:05 GMT)
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I think the technique is still used (though in an updated and much simplified version). Certainly as your text says, it was still being used at the beginning of the 20th cent.

Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:16
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 63

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  P.L.F. Persio: very good answer! You're right, it's quite remarkable; there's also a good image of an "incartata".
2 hrs
  -> thanks Miss D but the real credit goes to Prof. Francesco Miraglia, who created that website (which also includes lots of other interesting techniques).
agree  philgoddard: I'd just say wallpaper.
2 hrs
  -> what - on the ceiling?
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