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FrescoSchool.org
Our curriculum is focused on the traditional buon (true) fresco technique. Fresco School offers a full spectrum of fresco workshops and classes from introductory level lessons to advanced fresco programs and private fresco tutoring. Our curriculum also includes supplemental fresco restoration and mural painting seminars.

Now you can schedule your private fresco workshop by requesting convenient for you date throughout the calendar year. And you can do it right on the website using our new calendar feature. You can configure your own fresco program, length and complexity and book the time to attend. The costs are more then accessible and do fit virtually any budget.

The site also features free and simple registration form that provides you with the opportunity to request classes and elements that you desire or can not find. Like demonstrations and specialty, training, assisted workstation rentals, plastering support, etc.

Upcoming, non-private Workshops:

... paint, in hopes of replacing the matte surface of fresco (pigment applied ... to wonder: Michelangelo's versatility in passing from poetry to painting to sculpture ...
... Leonardo was commissioned in 1495 to do the painting, but his services were much in ... quickly, so he didn't take the time to paint in true fresco style paint ...

Coppola Brothers, who have always been involved in the art community, along with Master fresco painter, iLia Anossov, teamed up in an effort to offer something to artists that had never been available in the United States before. In January of 2003 Coppola Brothers Company took over the responsibility of supplying Fresco School Workshop students and the art community at large with all of the hard to find fresco art supplies and materials. All of the cost savings are passed directly to the Fresco School students by offsetting their individual materials costs. Most of the materials that Coppola Bros. Company distributes through 'The fresco Shop' are imported directly from Italy.

Coppola Brothers Company is a very unique contracting firm. They specialize in the application of authentic Italian plasters and other very interesting historic materials from around the world. They concentrate on using application techniques that are derived from the Masters who originally used these materials centuries ago. 'There are similar products available on the market today,' says owner and chief researcher, Mitchell Nussbaum, 'but most are synthetic representations of the originals. If you want true Italian plaster walls, you need to start out with the real thing. But that's only half of the equation,' says Mitchell. ' You must have a crew of applicators that are trained in mixing, coloring, preparing, and applying these plasters properly. These are all seamless applications,' says Mitchell, 'and must be organized very precisely. After three, five, or even ten men complete a wall or ceiling, it must appear that it was all done by only one hand. That's the trick.'