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Bookmark or Share- Fresco Painting - The Age-Old Art of Applying Paint to PlasterThe term “fresco” or “fresh”, as it is understood in Italian, stems from the practice of painting that involves a mixture of water and pigment applied onto a freshly plastered wall. As the lime-based plaster dries in the air, carbonation fuses the pigment particles within the plaster.
- Fresco painting | history, method, & examples | Britannicafresco painting, method of painting water-based pigments on freshly applied plaster, usually on wall surfaces. The colours, which are made by grinding dry-powder pigments in pure water, dry and set with the plaster to become a permanent part of the wall.
- Akrotiri Frescoes - World History Encyclopediaby Mark Cartwright. published on 27 March 2014. Available in other languages: French, Greek. The Bronze Age frescoes from Akrotiri on the Aegean island of Thera (modern-day Santorini) provide some of the most famous images from the ancient Greek world.
- Fresco - WikipediaFresco ( pl. frescos or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting becomes an integral part of the wall.
- Fresco Painting - History, Famous Artists, Artworks | ArthiveFresco (it. affresco — fresh) is a technique for wall painting on wet plaster, as opposed to the secco or fresco secco technique, in which paints are applied to an already dried plaster wall. In contemporary art, the term “fresco” denotes wall painting, regardless of the technique, in which it is performed.
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