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Paintings done on walls using water-based pigments that are added to plaster and applied over a freshly spread plaster. The earliest frescoes are Minoan (1600 B.C.). Photo from Pisa, Italy, 2018. (Ontario Architecture, 2005)

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buon fresco
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