Painting on dry plaster as opposed to painting on wet plaster. Painting on wet plaster is more permanent because the paint is infused with the plaster.
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The two types of fresco painting are buon fresco and fresco secco. Buon fresco is painting into wet plaster, which makes a painting last a long time. Fresco secco is painting onto dry plaster, which does not last as long.
What dries fast is not so much the paint, but the fresh plaster on which the fresco paint is applied. And as the plaster dries the paint unites with it.
It is a fresco made of dry plaster, a method of painting on plaster that is dried first and painted on later. Comparing this to the Minoan method of painting on wet plaster, this method did not do well in preserving the fresco as the fresco would fall off with the dry plaster if it cracks.The wet plaster made it easier for the paint to be absorbed as depicted in the Minoan artwork, the Bull Leaping scene, found in Knossos.
A mural si a large painting which takes up a giant space, usually the outside wall of a building. Fresco is a specific type of mural. Fresco is painted into wet plaster, so that the painting can last a long time.
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