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This is an illustration painted in fresco technique.
The fresco has been painted on a wall especially prepared for fresco, then detached and glued on a wooden board.
It has been painted with natural pigments with the old masters' technique.
The buon fresco technique consists of painting with pigment ground in water on a thin layer of wet, fresh, lime mortar or plaster, for which the Italian word is , intonaco. Because of the chemical makeup of the plaster, a binder is not required.

After a number of hours the plaster reacts with the air in a process called carbonatation. This chemical reaction fixes the pigment particles at the plaster's surface in a protective crystalline mesh known as the lime crust. 

The advantage of Buon fresco is its durability. In fresco-secco, by contrast, the color does not become part of the wall and tends to flake off over time. The chief disadvantage of Buon fresco is that it must be done quickly without mistakes.

The painter plasters and paints only as much as can be completed in a day, which explains the Italian term for each of these sections, giornata, or a day's work. The size of a giornata varies according to the complexity of the painting within it. A face, for instance, might take an entire day, whereas large areas of sky can be painted quite rapidly.

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Moon Stones - a FRESCO Painting

S A R I T A Nanni

Italy

Painting, Fresco on Wood

Size: 59.8 W x 41.3 H x 0.8 D in

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This is an illustration painted in fresco technique. The fresco has been painted on a wall especially prepared for fresco, then detached and glued on a wooden board. It has been painted with natural pigments with the old masters' technique. The buon fresco technique consists of painting with pigment...

Year Created:

2004

Subject:
Medium:

Painting, Fresco on Wood

Rarity:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

59.8 W x 41.3 H x 0.8 D in

Ready to Hang:

No

Frame:

Not Framed

Authenticity:

Certificate is Included

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Ships in a Crate

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Shipping is included in price.

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Italy.

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I don’t just paint faces. I paint what pulses beneath the skin. I was born in Rimini, Italy, where the sea and history shape the soul. I studied at the Istituto d’Arte Scuola del Libro in Urbino, then trained in illustration in Venice with Emanuele Luzzati and in Sarmede with Arcadio Lobato. My passion for large-scale painting led me to Florence, where I studied the ancient fresco technique. For nearly a decade, I lived in London, collaborating on handmade ceramic murals and private pools for the Emirates market. Today I work in my studio in Rimini, alongside my sister Catia, creating unique ceramic and wood pieces — and painting what cannot be said in words. My paintings explore the symbolic power of the face. Each portrait is not a likeness, but a vibration, a map of inner emotion. I work instinctively with a wide range of materials — oil, acrylic, tar, gold leaf, metallic foils, solvents, and whatever the process calls for. I let matter guide me: textures emerge, dissolve, resist, reflect. The surface becomes a ritual site — alive, layered, and emotional. My artistic philosophy is rooted in experimentation and raw expressiveness. I embrace imperfection, contradiction, and the uncontrolled beauty of the unexpected. This gave birth to my personal language: Grunge Art — a visceral, mixed-media approach inspired by the emotional authenticity of Seattle’s grunge movement. My materials are not passive tools — they are living participants in the creation. I don’t seek conventional beauty — I seek emotional truth. My art is a visual alchemy of chaos and control, light and shadow. Each piece is an invitation: to feel deeply, to see yourself reflected, and to connect beyond appearances. I also offer commissioned portraits from photographs. But don’t expect a copy. Expect something that looks like you — more than you might want to admit.

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