fresco secco

noun

1. the technique of painting in watercolors on dry plaster.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fresco secco¹

First recorded in 1835–45; from Italian: literally, “dry fresco”; fresco ( def. ), secco

Example Sentences

Participants can exercise their own creativity: Working with the New York artist Oscar Rene Cornejo, whose practice draws on the history of abstraction in the United States and Latin America, teenagers will paint fresco secco pieces to add to a museum mural and then take home at the end of the evening.

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In terms of lost art, nothing has received quite the press of Leonardo’s unfinished fresco secco.

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