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How to Paint a Fresco (the Renaissance Way)
This article details how frescoes were painted in the Renaissance.
http://www.arttrav.com/art-history-tools/how-to-paint-fresco/
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Fresco Painting - Britannica
Fresco painting is ideal for making murals because it lends itself to a monumental style, is durable, and has a matte surface.
https://www.britannica.com/art/fresco-painting
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Buon Fresco Materials and Supplies
Detailed list of Buon Fresco Materials and Supplies with descriptions of use in buon fresco painting. One stop art materials reference center for fresco projects, includes shopping info.
http://www.fresco-techniques.com/buon-fresco-materials.html
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FuoriBorgo: Fresco Making Tutorial
Last year Nicholas took a little course in fresco making at the archeology museum in the nearest town. He loved it, and the bird fresco he made crowns one of our bookshelves.
http://www.fuoriborgo.com/fuoriborgo/2009/04/fresco-making.html
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The Art of Fresco: Painting Technique
The Art of Fresco by Lucia Wiley. This page describes transferring the design and painting the fresco.
http://www.muralist.org/fresco/painting.html
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Interpretive Resource - The Art Institute of Chicago
The fresco technique of painting involves the application of pigment to a wall surface covered with fresh plaster. While this process might sound fairly simple, it is actually quite complicated. It involves a series of chemical reactions between the materials, which must occur at the correct time in order for the fresco to set properly. Consequently, this technique requires great skill and timing on the part of the plasterer and painter.
http://www.artic.edu/aic/resources/resource/2672?search_id=1
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What is Fresco? - YouTube
Liana Sofia explains, "what is fresco?" during a short film that documents the creation of a 3 section Fresco.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-prAIz0urTE
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How to Make a Fresco Painting: 9 Steps - Wikihow
How to Make a Fresco Painting. Affresco ( In English usage, "fresco" ). Painting done on freshly laid wet plaster with pigments dissolved in lime water.
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Fresco-Painting
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Fresco Painting Tools and Materials - FrescoShop
Fresco Painting Tools, Materials and Supplies selected and tested by the Fresco School. Slaked lime putty, natural earth and mineral pigments, fresco painting brushes, premixed fresco lime plasters, trowels, video tutorials and more.
http://frescoshop.com
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Preparing Pigments For Fresco Painting by Tony Johansen
How to prepare colors for fresco painting.
http://www.paintmaking.com/grinding_fresco.htm
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Fresco Plaster - Buon Fresco Painting Foundations Tutorials
Fresco Plaster - Buon Fresco Painting Foundations DVD Tutorial Volume 1 is the essential tutorial and a must-have for the study of the medium of fresco.
http://iliafresco.com/fresco-plaster-buon-fresco-painting-foundations/
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Fresco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia's information about frescos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresco
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Fresco Painting - Visual Arts
Fresco Painting: History, Techniques: Buon, Secco, Mezzo Techniques: Arena Chapel (Giotto), Sistine Chapel (Michelangelo).
http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/painting/fresco.htm
