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Magical American Fresco |
| Section: THE ARTS / CRAFT & DESIGN |
| Author: Susan Tenaglia |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2001 |
| Size: 1,784 Words, 11,239 Characters |
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In the small thirteenth-century town of Ceri, about twenty-five miles from Rome, the Academia Caerite holds workshops on the ancient art of fresco painting. Taught by Livia Monaco, whose family owns the Palazzo Torlonia where the workshops are taught, and Sheilah Rechtschaffer, a New York fresco artist and teacher, the program has attracted numerous Americans eager to master a technique as old as art itself. "It's really interesting," says Monaco, "but teaching fresco is more requested in the United States than in Italy."
The medium of Giotto, Piero della Francesca, Michelangelo, and Fra Angelico, as well as the ancient Romans, Pompeiians, and Cretes, has indeed become one of the exciting rediscoveries of contemporary art. Architects, interior designers, fine artists, and art student...
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...e humanity associated with Renaissance art. This subtle tension between old and new makes fresco an exciting rediscovery in today's art scene.
"There is a magic to fresco," explains Rechtschaffer. "For me, it's that particular moment--when the dampness is just right and the plaster is responsive to the layers of paint--that is so exciting. Each brush mark is recorded and unchangeable."
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