fresco

     

Fresco (plural either frescos or frescoes) is any of several relate painting types, done on plaster on walls or ceilings. The word fresco comes from the Italian word affresco which derives from the adjective fresco ("fresh"), which has Germanic origins.

Trivia about fresco

  • The Nazarenes of 19th c. Germany wore biblical clothes & hairstyles & aimed to revive this wall painting method
  • This kind of painting on plaster was a speciality of 15th c. artist Piero della Francesca
  • The final layer of plaster prepared for this type of wall painting is called intonaco
  • From about 1305, the work seen here is one of Italy's first great masterpieces in this, a type of mural painting
  • Italian for "fresh", this type of wall painting has paint fusing with plaster
  • It's the art of painting on a moist, plaster surface with colors ground up in water
  • This type of work means "fresh" in Italian

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