noun
definition
A work painted on dry plaster, as distinguished from a fresco.
adjective
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Dry
example
Secco painting, or painting in secco, is painting on dry plaster, as distinguished from fresco painting, on wet or fresh plaster.
definition
Dry – sparse accompaniment, staccato, without resonance
Examples of secco in a Sentence
New maps of Spain and Portugal appeared in 1560, the former being due to Pedro de Medina, the latter to Fernando Alvarez Secco and Hernando Alvaro.
The place was previously known as Corrego Secco, which Dr George Gardner described in 1837 as "a small, miserable village."
After five to eight years it may become an amontillado, and if it is left in cask and allowed to develop, it will, after it attains an age of nine to fourteen years, become an oloroso, and still later it may become a secco.
The vino dulce and vino secco are both made as a rule from the Pedro Jimenez (white) grape, the former in much the same way as the dulce which is employed in the sherry industry, the latter by permitting fermentation to take its normal course.
Look for the term Amabile on the label, which indicates it is sweet rather than dry, which is Secco.