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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Just about every available surface of the room is painted, combining the techniques of wet-plaster fresco with a dry-plaster secco.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
In terms of lost art, nothing has received quite the press of Leonardo’s unfinished fresco secco.
From The Guardian ● May 18, 2018
True fresco did not include the use of glue sizing and dark washes a secco.
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
In addition to the particulars already mentioned, Antonio did everything in fresco, and never retouched anything a secco.
From The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8) by Giorgio Vasari
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