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Meanings of frescoes in English
Technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid lime plaster.
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Usage of frescoes in English
1
All are filled with busts and statues; or painted in daring frescoes.
2
Colourful paper chains stretch across the stucco ceiling with the faded frescoes.
3
Any frescoes were good when they started to peel and flake off.
4
The earliest examples of trellis work shown are in certain Roman frescoes.
5
There are some curious frescoes in the church, and an oak screen.
6
This is indeed true of the arid desert of the Pauline frescoes.
7
Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.
8
The museum contains frescoes, paintings and other artefacts related to the story.
9
The frescoes of Correggio, when not repainted, are supreme in this quality.
10
The statues are of little or no merit, nor yet the frescoes.
11
He was also starry-eyed among the frescoes, plainly enchanted by Roman splendour.
12
To this chapel I will again return: it is covered with frescoes.
13
On either hand two cinque-cento frescoes had been rescued from the whitewash.
14
It was decorated with frescoes and mural paintings by well-known French artists.
15
We found his Coronation of the Virgin, his frescoes of St. Antonio.
16
There are also allegorical frescoes, representing very appropriately the virtues and vices.
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Translations for frescoes
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Frescoes through the time
Frescoes across language varieties
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