Throughout Veranda Park you will fine beautifully painted frescoes and murals.

The procedure of applying colors to a wall of damp fresh lime plaster is called buon fresco, Italian for “really fresh” painting. The pigments are usually ground only in water and painted thinly on the fresh plaster. As the plaster dries, the pigment particles are locked into the surface of the wall. In secco, or “on dry surface,” painting is done on dry plaster and with the pigments in a binding medium, like egg.

Examples of the fresco technique survive from the Minoan period [1700 B.C.], the Pompeian period [100 B.C. to A. D. 79], and, of course, from the Renaissance. Contemporary fresco methods have not departed in any fundamental technical way from the ancient practices. More than any other painting technique, fresco painting has been associated with the aesthetic and technical excellence of architectural decoration.

Frescoes secco will be featured in the common areas throughout Veranda Park.

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