Technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid lime plaster.
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The fresco, rich in figures and beauty, is executed with real mastery.
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Over one door is the Nativity,-overthe other, the Resurrection,-alsoin fresco.
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Poliziano is seen again in a Ghirlandaio fresco at S. Maria Novella.
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The real fresco consists of painting upon plaster, while it is wet.
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This fresco dates probably from as far back as the thirteenth century.
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All are filled with busts and statues; or painted in daring frescoes.
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Colourful paper chains stretch across the stucco ceiling with the faded frescoes.
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Any frescoes were good when they started to peel and flake off.
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The earliest examples of trellis work shown are in certain Roman frescoes.
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There are some curious frescoes in the church, and an oak screen.
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Nevertheless, there were frescos by Domenichino, and oil-paintings by Guido and others.
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Below is a series of frescos by a very second-rate artist, Poccetti.
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The frescos were done in the early part of the century.
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However many of the frescos and paintings have undergone extensive restoration.
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Giotto's triumphs are to be found in the frescos of the Santa Croce.
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This will make a pretty black for fresco painting.
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The face expressed every shade of sweetness and agony; yet it was only a fresco painting.
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In fresco painting the colours, mixed only with water, were laid upon plaster while still damp.
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There was a large fresco painting of Christ upon the cross, which particularly arrested my attention.
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It seems that His Royal Highness's technical acquaintance with the processes of fresco painting was incomplete!
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With one he went to Siena to assist him in some fresco painting he had to do there.
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This is veritable fresco painting, and the colour was usually applied after the outline had been graven in the stone.
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It resembles a "close of the fifth act" much more than beseems the serious character of fresco painting.
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He dropped the fresco painting plea, but I had the impression that was only because it was all fixed anyway.
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In the latter case any pictures should be set in specially arranged panels and should be pictures of importance, or fresco painting.
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And here we may say a few words about fresco painting, which is such a marked feature in the Italian churches and buildings.
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His finest work, the "Last Supper," a fresco painting at Milan, is much damaged, but fortunately good copies of it exist.
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The manipulation being of necessity slow, it is more difficult to convey the idea of spontaneity in design than it is in a fresco painting.
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Open-air fresco painting is still a living art, an art practised by hundreds and thousands of craftsmen, an art as alive as cookery or weaving.
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Upon the other sides of the room were rude fresco paintings.
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We now have fresco paintings of monstrosities, rather than truthful representations of definite things.