Secco vs. Fresco — What's the Difference?

Secco is a surname of Italian origin, which means dry. It may refer to: Alessio Secco (b.

Fresco (plural frescos or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting becomes an integral part of the wall.

The art or an example of painting on dry plaster.

The art of painting on fresh, moist plaster with pigments dissolved in water.

Of or being a kind of recitative in which the words are sung rapidly to minimal accompaniment, usually just continuo.

A painting executed in this way.

(art) dry

To paint in fresco.

(music) dry – sparse accompaniment, staccato, without resonance

(countable) A cool, refreshing state of the air; coolness, duskiness, shade.

(art) A work painted on dry plaster, as distinguished from a fresco.

An artwork made by applying water-based pigment to wet or fresh lime mortar or plaster.

Dry.

The technique used to make such an artwork.

(ambitransitive) To paint using fresco.

A cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade.

The art of painting on freshly spread plaster, before it dries.

To paint in fresco, as walls.

A mural done with watercolors on wet plaster

A durable method of painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster

Paint onto wet plaster on a wall