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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 was born in Rimini. Raised between the sea, salt air, and ancient stone, I’ve always looked for what lies beneath. My artistic training began at the Istituto d’Arte Scuola del Libro in Urbino, continued in Venice with Emanuele Luzzati, and in Sarmede with Arcadio Lobato. In Florence, I studied the fresco technique. I’ve breathed art in many forms — and chose my own. I spent nearly a decade in London, working on ceramic murals and custom-made pools for the Emirates market. Now I create in my studio in Rimini, together with my sister Catia. Wood, ceramic, metal, resin, color — every piece begins with a dialogue with matter. I paint faces, but resemblance doesn’t interest me. I look for vibration, inner tension, emotional fragments. I use oil, acrylic, solvents, metal leaf, tar, enamel, raw pigments. Each painting is a field of force. The surface breathes, fights, yields, resists. My language is called Grunge Art. It’s instinct, contrast, layering, excess. Mistakes are part of the process. The unexpected is sacred. Every material participates actively — it oxidizes, breaks, reflects, transforms. There are no filters. No easy solutions. I’m after what’s true. The kind that stings. The kind that pulses. Each portrait is a lit-up mirror. Looking at it feels like listening to yourself with no protection. I also create commissioned portraits, based on provided images. The reference starts the process. Essence emerges. I’m not here to decorate. When you choose one of my pieces, it's because something inside you shifts. And it keeps shifting, every time you walk past it. It makes you face yourself. It pulls out parts of you that were buried. It’s a mirror that works on you, that pushes, that digs. It’s charismatic, uncomfortable, magical. It works on you. Every time.

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