Description: Toichografia, or fresco. The word fresco comes from the Italian word affresco which derives from the adjective fresco, which has Germanic origins. Frescoes were often made during the Renaissance.
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Buon fresco consists of painting in pigment mixed with water on a thin layer of wet, fresh lime mortar or plaster, for which the Italian word for plaster, intonaco, is used. Because of the chemical makeup of plaster, a binder is not required, as the pigment mixed solely with the water will sink into the intonaco, which itself becomes the medium holding the pigment. The pigment is absorbed by the wet plaster; after a number of hours, the plaster dries and reacts with the air: it is this chemical reaction which fixes the pigment particles in the plaster. OK?
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