Fresco Painting

Grade Level:

10

Subject:

Painting

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Goal Summary:

Students will understand what a fresco is. Students should be able to identify that unlike a modern mural which can flake off or be easily removed with a paint stripper, fresco painting combines with the wall, thus making it permanent. Students will understand that this is a style of painting that dates back several millennia as even a simple cave painting can be considered a fresco because the lime in the wall bonds with the pigments layered onto the wall. Students will also understand that the height of fresco painting was during the Renaissance but soon became obsolete with the growing prevalence of oil paintings being created on canvases. Students will also come to understand the differences between buon, mezzo, and secco fresco.

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Essential Questions:

Why would an artist create a mural using fresco rather than use an oil or tempera paint over a brick or concrete wall?
What aspect of fresco painting allows it to become permanently apart of the wall it's painted on?
Why is a buon fresco more permanent than a secco fresco?
How is Pompeii important in the history of fresco painting?

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