In medieval Europe, before the rise of oil paintings, fresco was a popular religious painting technique. Many artworks across Europe, hundreds of years old, utilize this method and constitute an ...

Fresco painting is the ancient painting technique where paint pigments are laid onto fresh plaster, and after drying, the painting becomes part of the wall.

Part of a fresco by the Zavattaris in the Theodelinda’s Chapel near Milan, Italy. The artworks, executed between 1440 and 1446, are rich and complex, using various fresco techniques, gold and ...

When applied to “The Resurrection,” TQR revealed several interesting features, including an area around the soldier’s sword that had been painted with a combination of two different fresco ...

The researchers are now testing the technique on other, non-fresco types of paintings, hoping it can be used to tell what kinds of pigments were used to make the painting.

Leonardo used an experimental dry fresco technique, which left the surface fragile and prone to flaking soon after it was completed.