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  2. Fresco - Wikipedia

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    The word fresco is commonly and inaccurately used in English to refer to any wall painting regardless of the plaster technology or binding medium. This, in part, contributes to a misconception that the most geographically and temporally common wall painting technology was the painting into wet lime plaster.

  3. Conservation and restoration of frescos - Wikipedia

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    The oldest method, known as the a massello technique, involves cutting the wall and removing a considerable part of it together with both layers of plaster and the fresco painting itself. The stacco technique, on the other hand, involves removing only the preparatory layer of plaster, called the arriccio together with the painted surface.

  4. Plaster - Wikipedia

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    An orthopedic cast for the hand made out of plaster. for making surfaces like the walls of a house smooth before painting them and for making ornamental designs on the ceilings of houses and other buildings. [19] (see Plaster In decorative architecture) for making toys, decorative materials, cheap ornaments, cosmetics, and black-board chalk. [19]

  5. Primers are designed to improve your paint's ability to stick to walls in old homes, in humid bathrooms, on repaired walls, or in other tricky areas. "There is a reason why primers exist," says ...

  6. Conservation and restoration of Pompeian frescoes - Wikipedia

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    The Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale was excavated in 1900 and many of the frescoes were stripped from the walls and auctioned off. One of the more notable conservation and restoration projects has taken place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY, where they have restored and installed the paintings (2002-2007) from the Villa's cubiculum, or bedroom, for the new Greek ...

  7. Mural - Wikipedia

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    A fresco painting, from the Italian word affresco which derives from the adjective fresco ("fresh"), describes a method in which the paint is applied on plaster on walls or ceilings. The buon fresco technique consists of painting in pigment mixed with water on a thin layer of wet, fresh, lime mortar or plaster. The pigment is then absorbed by ...