Fresco is not a food or beverage...
Our
daughter, Rebecca, took a few art classes in college and was very
excited to come to Italy and see all the paintings, sculptures, etc.
that she'd only seen illustrated in books. She was even more excited to
discover that in Italy you can find art treasures around every corner
(i.e., you don't have to go to a museum to see beautiful historic art).One type of painting that we saw everywhere were frescoes (murals on walls and ceilings). A painting "buon fresco" is accomplished by applying pigment mixed with water onto a thin layer of fresh plaster (the colors mute as the pigment is absorbed by the layer of plaster during the drying process). As such, you can only create as much of the overall image as you can paint in 7-9 hours. When you're done, the painting needs to look like a single image (and not a patchwork of smaller images) so this type of painting is very difficult. The sad thing is that through time, sections of the thin layer of plaster fall from the wall/ceiling (and along with them portions of the image). Of course, the most famous (and probably well cared for) fresco painting is the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo (which took four years to complete).
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