1. FRESCO 1

2. What is a Fresco?
It is any of several related mural painting types, created on fresh plaster applied to walls or ceilings.
The word fresco comes from the Italian word affresco, which comes from the Latin word for "fresh".
Frescoes have been made since ancient times.
This technique was also very popular during the Renaissance (the times of Michelangelo and Da Vinci). 2

3. History of fresco 3

4. Greece
The earliest known examples frescoes date at around BC and are to be found on the island of Crete. 4

6. The most famous of these, “The Toreador”, depicts a sacred ceremony in which individuals jump over the backs of large bulls. 5

7. Much like today, these works of Art had a theme or story.
Plants and Environments
Animals
Humans 6

8. What do you see?
What could the story be about? 7

9. What do you think the theme of this fresco is below?8

10. And these?
a) b) c) 9

11. Egyptian compared to Minoan
What is the same? What is different? 10

12. Renaissance
The Creation of Adam, detail of the ceiling fresco by Michelangelo,
1508–12 11

13. Delphic Sibyl, detail of a fresco by Michelangelo, 1508–12
Renaissance cont.
Delphic Sibyl, detail of a fresco by Michelangelo, 1508–12
The Delphic Sibyl was a woman from before the Trojan Wars (c. 11th century BC) mentioned by Pausanias writing in the 2nd century AD about stories he had heard locally. The Sibyl would have predated the real Pythia, the oracle and priestess of Apollo, originating from around the 8th century BC. 
The Delphic Theme 
Of Self-Knowledge In Medieval Literature 12

14. 20th Century
Diego Rivera
1931 13

15. The Fresco Technique is still used today in Churches, Villas, Taverns and even some schools.
Sometimes people confuse Murals and Graffiti with Frescoes.
There is a big difference though… 14

16. Frescoes are wet on wet!
Murals and Graffiti are Wet on Dry