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Frescoes were invented because someone spilled paint and refused accountability. Which is the purest artistic origin story.

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Fresco is an ancient technique of painting pigments onto wet plaster, used in Minoan Crete and later by Roman and Renaissance artists. It developed as a deliberate method, not from a spilled-paint accident.

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