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painting that marries pigment to wet plaster, so the wall becomes the art forever
means A method of mural painting in which water-based pigments are applied onto freshly laid, still-wet lime plaster, so that as the plaster dries the colors become a permanent part of the wall itself.
from From Italian fresco, meaning "fresh" or "cool" — the same sense that survives in the phrase a fresco, "in the fresh (air)." The technique is named for the freshness of the plaster: you must paint while it is still wet, before it sets. The Italian word traces back to a Germanic root for "fresh," a cousin of English fresh itself.
- speed demon
- Painters raced before plaster dried each day
- chemistry trick
- Drying lime locks color into the wall permanently
- daily portion
- Giornata: the patch finished in one session
- sistine grind
- Michelangelo painted it across four brutal years
- buon vs secco
- Wet plaster lasts; dry retouching flakes away
sistine chapel ceiling — michelangelo painted 5,000 square feet of frescoes in vatican city, 1508-1512
brancacci chapel — masaccio and filippino lippi's frescoes in florence showing revolutionary perspective, 1424-1428