secco

sec·co

S0200000 (sĕk′ō)n. pl. sec·cos The art or an example of painting on dry plaster.adj. Music Of or being a kind of recitative in which the words are sung rapidly to minimal accompaniment, usually just continuo.

[Italian, from Latin siccus, dry.]

secco

(ˈsɛkəʊ) n, pl -cos1. (Art Terms) wall painting done on dried plaster with tempera or pigments ground in limewater. Compare fresco2. (Art Terms) any wall painting other than true fresco[C19: from Italian: dry, from Latin siccus]

Secco

painting on dry plaster. Distemper and tempera painting on a dry surface is the most ancient painting technique. Medieval frescoes were often finished with tempera on a dry surface. In medieval Western European art both the secco technique and the fresco technique—painting on moist plaster with pigments mixed with lime-water—developed. Secco was especially popular in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. The term “secco” also designates painting on dry plaster with pigments mixed with casein and silicate.

REFERENCE

Kiplik, D. I. Tekhnika zhivopisi. Moscow-Leningrad, 1950. Pages 470–72.

fresco secco, secco

A mural, often fugitive, painted with water-based colors on dry plaster.

Acronym

Definition

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