LIME – OBTAINING AND USING IT IN MURAL PAINTING
LIME – OBTAINING AND USING IT IN MURAL PAINTING

Summary/Abstract: Slaked lime and quicklime have been known and used since antiquity and the Middle Ages as construction material and base in monumental painting. Lime qualities are the most diverse: it is durable, resistant to temperature variations and washing. It presents stability to the action of chemical and physical factors that come into contact. Used in Frescoes, the lime provides a matte finish to the painting, which helps in reading the image regardless of the angle in which the viewer is and gives the colour transparency and durability. The techniques in which lime was irreplaceable are the expression of a long tradition as found in the texts of Byzantine painting Erminia.

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