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Post-revolutionary public fresco in Mexico: Vasconcelos, los tres grandes, named walls from the National Palace to Detroit and Dartmouth
After 1920 Mexico paid painters to put national history on ministry and school walls. This guide covers Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros, fresco versus industrial paint, United States commissions, critics, and a visit table for the National Palace, Detroit Institute of Arts, Dartmouth and the Polyforum.
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.
