Fresco may thus be contrasted with secco mural painting techniques, on plasters of lime, earth, or gypsum, or applied to supplement painting in fresco.

In a wall-sized fresco, there may be ten to twenty or even more giornate, or separate areas of plaster.

In most early examples this work has now entirely vanished, but a whole fresco done a secco on a surface roughened to give a key for the paint may survive very well, although damp is more threatening to it than to buon fresco.

Some art historians believe that fresco artists from Crete may have been sent to various locations as part of a trade exchange, a possibility which raises to the fore the importance of this art form within the society of the times.

Icons may also be cast in metal, carved in stone, embroidered on cloth, painted on wood, done in mosaic or fresco work, printed on paper or metal, etc.

No contemporary documents record the patron of the fresco, but recently references to ownership of a tomb at the foot of the fresco have been found in the records of the Berti family of the Santa Maria Novella Quarter of Florence ; this working-class family expressed a long-standing devotion to the Trinity, and may well have commissioned Masaccio's painting.

Each lararium features a panel fresco containing the same theme: two peripheral figures ( Lares ) attend on a central figure ( family genius ) or two figures ( genius and Juno ) who may or may not be at an altar.

From Dante's Hall in the palace, access may be made to a Maesta fresco by Lippo Memmi, as well as the Torre del Podestà or Torre Grossa, 1311, which stands fifty-four metres high.

Having explained that " The principal works of modern art are in fresco " he specifically adds the cartoons " which, though not strictly to be called fresco, yet may be put under that denomination " before claiming that " Raffaelle ... stands in general foremost of the first painters ..." ( i. e. the best painters ) and comparing Raphael's works in oil unfavourably to his frescoes.

In Pinturicchio's fresco Disputation of St. Catherine in the Borgia Apartments, the male figure mounted on a horse in the far right portion of the fresco may be a depiction of Juan.

Alfresco in English usually refers to eating outside ( al fresco dining ), but also may refer to:

Queso blanco is traditionally made from cow's milk, whereas queso fresco may be made from a combination of cow's and goat's milk.

The epithet Argitis, which appears in a fresco near Kastoria may point to Argos ( southern Greece ) as his place of birth, although as he used it only once it is regarded probable that it refers to a location in the area of Kastoria.

His masterpiece may be a fresco in the Clementine Hall of the Vatican, a monumental depiction of The Martyrdom of St. Clement.

To be sure of matching color as well as form, pieces of cartoon were traced on the roughcast, and large samples painted in fresco, then left two months to dry out to their final key.

It could be seen that both artists used a very thick final coat of plaster, one half inch, and that both followed the traditional Italian fresco technique as described by Cennino Cennini in the 14th Century, and current in Italy to this day.

The most detailed illustrations are to be found on the ' ship fresco ' at Akrotiri on the island of Thera ( Santorini ) preserved by the ash fall from the volcanic eruption which destroyed the town there.

A fresco from Rila Monastery, Bulgaria, medieval Eastern Orthodox Church | Orthodox tradition, renovated 20th centuryElijah is mentioned once more in, which will be his final mention in the Hebrew Bible.

In painting buon fresco, a rough underlayer called the arriccio is added to the whole area to be painted and allowed to dry for some days.

If a previous fresco was being painted over, the surface would be roughened to give a key.

This area is called the giornata (" day's work "), and the different day stages can usually be seen in a large fresco, by a sort of seam that separates one from the next.

Once a giornata is dried, no more buon fresco can be done, and the unpainted intonaco must be removed with a tool before starting again the next day.

The additional a secco work would be done to make changes, and sometimes to add small details, but also because not all colours can be achieved in true fresco, because only some pigments work chemically in the very alkaline environment of fresh lime-based plaster.

The three key advantages of work done entirely a secco were that it was quicker, mistakes could be corrected, and the colours varied less from when applied to when fully dry — in wet fresco there was a considerable change.

One of the rare examples of Islamic fresco painting can be seen in Qasr Amra, the desert palace of the Umayyads in the 8th century Magotez.

It was decided that the opportunity should be seized to encourage the development of a national British school of History Painting, and that the paintings should be done in fresco.

For once, fresco proved to be a problematic technique for the English climate.

The fresco, considered by many to be Masaccio's masterwork, is the earliest surviving painting to use systematic linear perspective, possibly devised by Masaccio with the assistance of Brunelleschi himself.

In 1502 he went to Siena at the invitation of another pupil of Perugino, Pinturicchio, " being a friend of Raphael and knowing him to be a draughtsman of the highest quality " to help with the cartoons, and very likely the designs, for a fresco series in the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral.

The fresco cycle details the life of the Virgin Mary and has been acknowledged by many to be one of the most important fresco cycles in the world.

Traces of a 14th century fresco by Tommaso da Modena can still be seen.

Because a fresco cannot be modified as the artist works, Leonardo instead chose to seal the stone wall with a layer of pitch, gesso and mastic, then paint onto the sealing layer with tempera.

The condottiere and his horse are presented as if the fresco was a sculpture, seen from below.

* Image of Pope Saint Sixtus as seen on a fresco at Chalivoy-Milon in the Berry.

The book explicitly recognizes the achievements of several existing nanotechnology researchers: Feynman, Drexler and Merkle are seen among characters of the fresco in Merkle-Hall, where new nanotechnological items are designed and constructed.

A very clear expression of the modern Swiss Guard uniform can be seen in a 1577 fresco by Jacopo Coppi of the Empress Eudoxia conversing with Pope Sixtus III.

These paintings can be seen as a mirror of the political and religious crisis in Florence at the time: the theme of the fresco, the clash between Christianity and Paganism, was hotly debated in the Florence of Girolamo Savonarola.

Piero della Francesca made systematic and scientific studies of both light and linear perspective, the results of which can be seen in his fresco cycle of The History of the True Cross in San Francesco, Arezzo.

Depictions of ritual sporting events are seen in the Minoan art of Bronze Age Crete, such as a fresco dating to 1500 BC of gymnastics in the form of religious bull-leaping and possibly bullfighting.

The fresco is an illusion with the central field apparently open to the sky and scores of figures seen ' al di sotto in su ' apparently coming into the room itself or floating above it.

It has been much reworked over the centuries ; over the main altar a fresco of the Umbrian school can be seen, depicting the Madonna and Child, attributed to Bartolomeo da Miranda.

Caroline modelled for the fresco of Justice in the House of Lords by Daniel Maclise, who chose her because she was seen by many as a famous victim of injustice.

Bauer also produced a fresco, Den helige Martin ( The Holy Martin ), which can be seen in the Odd Fellows lodge in Nyköping.

The fresco can be seen in the monastery Museum.

The memorial fresco of Gran ( in which the trace of a tear can be seen ) was restored by Franz Anton Maulbertsch.

Under the cloister a second church can be seen, complete with a 14th ‑ century fresco.

Another fresco, by an unknown painter working during the first half of the 15th century, can be seen under the triptych, representing St. Laurentius with the symbol of his martyrdom in his hand.