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By Katrina Hays / The Bulletin
March 29, 2005
The Italians knew plaster.
Frescoes - paintings executed on fresh plaster - that were buried for 2,000 years by the volcanic ash of Mount Vesuvius outlasted the ancient Roman civilization that created them. Hundreds of years ago, Italian craftsmen plastered cathedral walls inside and out, and....