Fresco: fresh, dry and restored
Fresh plaster, pigments in a hurry and a legendary ceiling: dig into the secrets of fresco
What this quiz asks
- 1What does the Italian word « fresco » originally mean?
- 2Buon fresco, the « true » fresco, means painting onto...
- 3Painting « a secco », by contrast, means working onto...
- 4Who covered the Sistine Chapel ceiling in frescoes?
- 5Why does buon fresco force you to paint without dawdling?
- 6What is the patch of fresh plaster painted in a single day called?
- 7Once the wall is dry, what makes buon fresco so durable?
- 8Some blues often ended up a secco on a fresco: why?
- 9What is the red-ochre preparatory drawing hidden under the painted layer called?
- 10The Sistine restoration (1980-1994) stirred controversy: why?
