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The cittacotte are miniature copies of historical or monumental buildings of Palermo and other Italian cities made only in terracotta. The word ''cittacotte'' was invented by Vincenzo Vizzari, and it is composed by the two terms: città ((イタリア語:city)) and cotte ((イタリア語:baked)), meaning they are miniatures made of fired clay. The monuments are reproduced in scale (1:180 and 1:350) and can vary in size from a minimum height of up to . The typology of monuments and buildings reproduced is varied: monumental city doors, churches, historical buildings, but also common buildings of the centre of the city.〔Occhio di bue, August 2000, pp. 28-29〕 == Making the Cittacotte == The preparatory phase of a single cast is long and laborious: it consists in creating some clay prototypes which will be necessary to make their plaster casts. Each cast is made by photographic and metric surveys that allow the artist to take care also of the shrinkage coming from the evaporation during the modelling and the cooking phases. The result is a perfect handcrafted masterpiece in scale 1:350 or 1:180, exact in each single particular.〔Schoener Wohnen, decoration, Jan 2000, p.18〕〔Gokutabi Italia, Aug 2006, p.43〕 The cast or the casts, for more complex models, are used to give a first shape to the clay parts that, once sketched, can be modelled and finished by hand. The making of a medium complexity model like the Palermo's Porta Nuova can require six hours of intense manual labour. The firing takes about two hours. After that the artist can start the finishing, fully manually, and the polishing using a little wax film to enhance the appearance of the terracotta. File:Making of Porta Nuova cittacotte - phase 1.jpg|Phase 1 - putting the clay in the casts File:Making of Porta Nuova cittacotte - phase 2.jpg|Phase 2 - the first raw part of the model is ready File:Making of Porta Nuova cittacotte - phase 3.jpg|Phase 3 - assembling all the parts of the model together File:Making of Porta Nuova cittacotte - phase 4.jpg|Phase 4 - after the baking the terracotta is ready File:Making of Porta Nuova cittacotte - phase 5.jpg|Phase 5 - finishing, polishing and waxing File:Making of Porta Nuova cittacotte - phase 6.jpg|Phase 6 - the cittacotte miniature is ready 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cittacotte」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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