affresco
Painted on plaster
Affresco is the Italian word for fresco—painting done on wet plaster so pigments bond as the surface dries.
English borrowed the technique and the word, but affresco appears mainly when writers want to emphasize the Italian tradition or sound more artful: The chapel walls were painted affresco by local masters.
Italian word for day
Vertical enclosing structure
- ceilingRoom's upper surface
- vaultSecure storage chamber
- domeRounded vault forming roof
- apseVaulted church recess
lunette · chapel · church · palazzo · villa · grotto · cloister · refectory
Trecento Florentine painter
- MichelangeloFlorentine sculptor and painter
- RaphaelRenaissance painter from Urbino
- TiepoloVenetian rococo painter
- SistinePapal chapel adjective
Account of events
- biblicalOf sacred texts
- mythologicalOf traditional sacred narratives
- allegoricalExpressing meaning through symbols
- illusionisticCreating false visual reality
trompe-l'oeil · architectural · figural · decorative · ornamental · grotesque · iconography · cycle
Process of declining quality
- flakingShedding in layers
- efflorescenceCrystalline surface deposit
- saltsSodium chloride crystals
- humidityMoisture in atmosphere
detachment · consolidation · cleaning · retouching · lacunae · integration · documentation · reversibility
giornata
Italian word for day
lime · plaster · wet · dry · mezzo · binding · absorption · curing
wall
Vertical enclosing structure
apse · lunette · chapel · church · palazzo · villa · grotto · cloister · refectory · basilica
Giotto
Trecento Florentine painter
- MichelangeloFlorentine sculptor and painter
- RaphaelRenaissance painter from Urbino
- TiepoloVenetian rococo painter
narrative
Account of events
- biblicalOf sacred texts
- mythologicalOf traditional sacred narratives
- allegoricalExpressing meaning through symbols
illusionistic · trompe-l'oeil · architectural · figural · decorative · ornamental · grotesque · iconography · cycle · scheme
deterioration
Process of declining quality
- flakingShedding in layers
- efflorescenceCrystalline surface deposit
- saltsSodium chloride crystals
humidity · detachment · consolidation · cleaning · retouching · lacunae · integration · documentation · reversibility
- Italian art termschiaroscuro, tempera, pieta, tondo, putti
- edificiduomo, palazzo, convento, basilica, villa
- Italian CatholicismVatican, Vatican City, Holy See, papal, papal blessing
- prospettiva