gesso

white priming or ground made of chalk, gypsum, burnt gypsum, zinc oxide, or whiting mixed with glue or occasionally casein, used to prepare wooden panels or other supports for painting, gilding, or other decorative processes
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gesso

Summary

gesso is a painting material[1]. gesso draws 263 Wikipedia views per month (painting_material category, ranking #6 of 27).[2]

Key Facts

  • gesso's image is recorded as Gesso acrylic brush.jpg[3].
  • gesso's instance of is recorded as painting material[4].
  • gesso's subclass of is recorded as surface preparation material[5].
  • gesso's Commons category is recorded as Gesso[6].
  • gesso's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dwlk[7].
  • gesso's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300014952[8].
  • gesso's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[9].
  • gesso's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/gesso[10].
  • gesso's different from is recorded as plaster[11].
  • gesso's different from is recorded as gypsum[12].
  • gesso's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2781407378[13].
  • gesso's Lex ID is recorded as gesso[14].
  • gesso's Grove Art Online ID is recorded as T031812[15].
  • gesso's RKD thesaurus ID is recorded as 75155[16].
  • gesso's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 14700917-n[17].
  • gesso's Language of Bindings ID is recorded as 2911[18].
  • gesso's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/9a66b179-ab51-4aa6-a0b9-56630ee7d98c[19].

Why It Matters

gesso draws 263 Wikipedia views per month (painting_material category, ranking #6 of 27).[2] gesso has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] gesso is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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