@article{Prieto Pérochon_2022, place={Toledo, España}, title={In Search of Lost Scagliolas: Historical Investigation of the Traditional Wallcoverings of Iconic Buildings in Madrid}, url={https://www.traditionalarchitecturejournal.com/index.php/home/article/view/609}, DOI={10.51303/jtbau.vi3.609}, abstractNote={<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A study of scagliolas executed by the historic Spanish socialist leader Francisco Largo Caballero (a plasterer by trade) as well as by other fellow plasterers, following an exploration of many iconic nineteenth- and twentieth-century palaces in Madrid, highlights the importance of historical research involving archives, bibliographies, and photos, along with workers’ testimonies and stratigraphic probes, in ascertaining how the interiors of these buildings were originally decorated. Original plaster and lime finishes have been systematically replaced by emulsion paints of lower practical and historical value. For example, the Palace of Villamejor no longer contains any scagliola, the Bank of Spain has less than 5% of the scagliola that it had originally, and the tens of thousands of square meters of hot-ironed scagliola at the Air Force Ministry have been painted over.</span></p>}, number={3}, journal={Journal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism}, author={Prieto Pérochon, César}, year={2022}, month={Nov.}, pages={347–360} }