Meaning Fresco
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a mural done with watercolors on wet plaster The little church has an ancient fresco of St. Christopher, placed, as usual, opposite the entrance. — Conybeare, Edward
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1590s, in fresco, literally "in fresh," with a sense of "painted on fresh mortar or plaster," from Italian fresco "cool, fresh," as a noun "coolness, fresh air," [..]
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art or design painted directly into the wet plaster of a wall or other surface.
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A fresco is a type of wall painting. The term comes from the Italian word for fresh because plaster is applied to the walls while still wet. There are two methods of carrying out fresco painting: buon [..]
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Fresco is a mural painting technique that involves painting with water-based paint directly onto wet plaster so that the paint becomes an integral part of the plaster
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n. The art of painting on a surface of plaster, particularly on walls and ceilings.
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A directive to perform the indicated passage of a composition in a vigorous, lively, or "fresh" manner.
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[Spanish] fresh.
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Italian for"fresh," a technique of durable wall painting used extensively for murals.  In pure fresco (buon fresco), a fresh wet layer of plaster is applied to a prepared wall surfac [..]
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[Spanish] fresh.
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(n) a mural done with watercolors on wet plaster(n) a durable method of painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster(v) paint onto wet plaster on a wall
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Water-based pigment applied to fresh moist plaster. Fresco secco (dry) refers to the application of paint upon a dry wall.
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 – freshly
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(It. "fresh") Wall painting technique in which pigments are applied to wet (fresh) plaster (intonaco). The pigments bind with the drying plaster to form a very durable image. Only a small ar [..]
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FREHS-koh fresh
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fresh, spicy, delicious, exquisite, hot, cold
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Mig 17
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A painting technique in which the pigments are dispersed in plain water and applied to a damp plaster wall. The wall becomes the binder, as well as the support.
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The art of painting on fresh plaster with colors mixed in water.
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A technique of painting which consists of applying diluted paint to fresh, damp lime plaster. This method creates a chemical reaction which, in drying, transforms the lime of the plaster into calcium [..]
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An Italian word meaning fresh, it refers to pigments dispersed in water applied to wet plaster, and is traditionally the most common technique used for indoor mural painting, The plaster, being the on [..]
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Traditionally the most common technique used for indoor mural painting. Fresco is wall paint in which limeproof pigments are mixed with water and applied to lime plaster that is still wet. The plaster [..]
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ARO aro
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A painting technique in which the pigments are dispersed in plain water and applied to a damp plaster wall.
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 - Wall painting in water-based paint on moist plaster, mostly from the 14th to the 16th centuries; used mostly before the Renaissance produced oil paint as a more easily handled medium.
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Wall murals created by suspending pigment in water and applying them to a damp lime-plaster surface into which the pigment settles and dries, becoming part of the wall itself.
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Wall-painting on plaster with a water-based medium. True fresco (buon fresco) is one of the most permanent forms of wall decoration because the pigment is applied while the plaster is still damp.
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Fresco is a very labour intensive form of art, and it literally means fresh in Italian, and it it is exactly what it says on the tin. In fresco painting, pigments are absorbed directly into a wet wall [..]
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A painting done on plaster before it dries, generally in mural decoration.
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A technique for painting on walls, made popular during the Italian Renaissance. Frescoes are made by painting pigmented water onto a layer of wet plaster. As the plaster dries, the pigments are absorb [..]
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Meaning fresh in Italian, a true fresco consists of a pigment mixed with water painted over a "fresh", wet, mortar or plaster, called buon fresco, or in nearly dry mortar or plaster, called [..]
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The Italian Renaissance was the great period of Fresco painting, although this method of wall painting certainly goes back as far as the Minoan Civilisation on Crete. A disciplined technique and very [..]
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true fresco (known as buon fresco) is painting done with mineral or earth pigments upon wet lime or gypsum plaster. The pigments are suspended in water, and unite with the plaster as they dry.
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A wall painting technique that involves applying colored pigments to wet plaster. Italian word literally means wet/fresh. Additional pigment applied on dry plaster is “a secco”.
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Wall painting technique in which pigments are applied to wet (fresh) plaster (intonaco). The pigments bind with the drying plaster to form a very durable image. Only a small area can be painted in a d [..]
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