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Lower East Side

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The Lower East Side is Manhattan's younger, grittier gallery scene — small and mid-size spaces in walk-ups and storefronts between Chinatown and the East Village.

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Renaissance-style workshop interior with wet lime plaster on a wall section, bowls of earth pigments and water, trowel and charcoal cartoon lines, north light, no readable text
Guide

What Is Fresco Painting?

Buon fresco, secco and a secco on lime plaster: chemistry, giornate, Giotto and Michelangelo, and what wall painting costs when pigment becomes stone

Fresco is mural painting in which water-based pigment meets wet lime plaster and fixes as the wall carbonates. This guide separates buon fresco from secco and a secco, walks the plaster layers and a giornata, then reads Pompeii, Giotto's Padua cycle and Michelangelo's Sistine vault with conservators' notes on failure and repair.