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🖌️ Brushing up on common art terms, Part 2: FRESCO
The fresco (literally ‘fresh’) wall-painting technique dates back to antiquity. To create a fresco, artists apply a mixture of powdered pigments and water to wet lime plaster, prompting a chemical process that fuses the pigment with the wall. Because plaster dries quickly, artists must complete their frescoes in sections. Each section is called a giornata, Italian for “a day’s work.”
While frescoes were most popular in ancient Rome and during the Italian Renaissance (Italy’s hot, dry climate providing especially favourable conditions for their preservation), the medium was revived during the 20th century by Mexican muralists like Diego Riviera.
Fresco in Villa of Livia, Rome.
Diego Rivera’s mural at Palacio Nacional
3. The Creation of the Sun and the Moon, Michelangelo
Fresco in Villa of Livia, Rome
