Technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid lime plaster.
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Examples for "fresco"
Examples for "fresco"
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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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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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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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This is indeed true of the arid desert of the Pauline frescoes.
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Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.
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The museum contains frescoes, paintings and other artefacts related to the story.
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The frescoes of Correggio, when not repainted, are supreme in this quality.
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The statues are of little or no merit, nor yet the frescoes.
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He was also starry-eyed among the frescoes, plainly enchanted by Roman splendour.
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To this chapel I will again return: it is covered with frescoes.
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On either hand two cinque-cento frescoes had been rescued from the whitewash.
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It was decorated with frescoes and mural paintings by well-known French artists.
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We found his Coronation of the Virgin, his frescoes of St. Antonio.
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There are also allegorical frescoes, representing very appropriately the virtues and vices.
