A painting technique or method, possibly related to gouache or tempera painting with opaque pigments.
Possibly from Italian guazzo or related to gouache (French from Italian guazzo). The term refers to painting with opaque water-based pigments, a technique developed in Renaissance Italy.
Guazzo and gouache describe the same technique—painting with opaque colors instead of transparent watercolor—but the Italian and French names split apart as the technique spread across Europe during the Renaissance.
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