Workers or artisans who apply the arriccio layer of roughcast plaster in fresco preparation.
Italian, from 'arriccio' (the plaster layer) + '-ati' (suffix denoting those who perform the action). These specialized craftspeople had their own guild in Renaissance Italy with training and standards.
The arricciati were essential members of the fresco workshop hierarchy—their skill in creating the perfect textured surface determined whether months of a master painter's work would survive centuries or crumble within decades.
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