secco
Americannoun
adjective
noun
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wall painting done on dried plaster with tempera or pigments ground in limewater Compare fresco
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any wall painting other than true fresco
Etymology
Origin of secco
1850–55; < Italian: dry; see sack 3
Example Sentences
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In terms of lost art, nothing has received quite the press of Leonardo’s unfinished fresco secco.
From The Guardian • May 18, 2018
But it had been applied secco; now, after 400 years, its adhesion is fragile, and the crystals in some areas have been irreparably bleached to a dull gray by cleaning.
From Time Magazine Archive
Spectrophotometry images showed restorers where Michelangelo had used the secco technique -- adding color after the plaster had dried -- which requires more care in cleaning.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fear that the cleaning has taken off any of Michelangelo's a secco passages seems unfounded.
From Time Magazine Archive
His recitative—very little meat, more bones, and plenty of broth—I christened “alla genovese”: I had no intention of flattering the Genoese with this remark, but rather the older recitativo, the recitativo secco.
From The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
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