Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name)
4. [processes and techniques by specific type]
5. [image-making processes and techniques]
6. [painting and painting techniques]
7. painting techniques
8. [painting techniques by application method or circumstances]
9. fresco painting (technique)

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Scope note:

Mural painting technique in which pigments are ground in water and mixed with lime upon freshly laid plaster. As the pigmented lime dries, the calcium hydroxide reacts with carbon dioxide to form a pigmented calcium carbonate layer. Such paintings have survived from the Minoan period (1700 BCE) and Pompeii (79 CE). The technique was widely used from the 13th century in Italy for interior wall decorations, particularly in churches. Noted from ancient times as the preferred method of mural painting, superior to techniques that apply pigment to dry plaster, fresco secco, or partially dry plaster, mezzo fresco.