Milan New Fresco

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There's an interesting story about Leonardo Da Vinci and fresco technique.

His remarkably slow process meant a normal quick-drying fresco technique (in which paint is applied to plaster that is still wet) simply would not work. Instead, the ever-experimental artists developed a new fresco technique in which he painted directly onto a dry wall. The problem was that the paint didnโ€™t bond to the wall in the same way that it would have if it had been painted onto wet plaster. As a result, his biggest frescoย began to deteriorate almost immediately...

What masterpiece are we talking about?

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