"Fresco" is a technique of mural
painting executed upon freshly laid lime plaster. Water is the vehicle
for the pigment/color and, with the setting of the plaster, the painting
becomes an integral part of the wall. Since the painting is integral
to the wall, and since these frescoes are from cave churches and
therefore away from , they are well preserved. Many of the frescoes in
Turkey are from the 10th and 11th centuries A.D. By the way, the word
fresco (Italian: affresco) is derived from the Italian adjective
"fresco" meaning "fresh".
Most of the frescoes we saw in underground churches were of Biblical scenes and/or Biblical persons.
Here are a few examples from the Gümüşler Monastery in a previous blog.
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