Technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid lime plaster.
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1 The fresco , rich in figures and beauty, is executed with real mastery.
2 Over one door is the Nativity,-overthe other, the Resurrection,-alsoin fresco .
3 Poliziano is seen again in a Ghirlandaio fresco at S. Maria Novella.
4 The real fresco consists of painting upon plaster, while it is wet.
5 This fresco dates probably from as far back as the thirteenth century.
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.
1 Nevertheless, there were frescos by Domenichino, and oil-paintings by Guido and others.
2 Below is a series of frescos by a very second-rate artist, Poccetti.
3 The frescos were done in the early part of the century.
4 However many of the frescos and paintings have undergone extensive restoration.
5 Giotto's triumphs are to be found in the frescos of the Santa Croce.
1 This will make a pretty black for fresco painting .
2 The face expressed every shade of sweetness and agony; yet it was only a fresco painting .
3 In fresco painting the colours, mixed only with water, were laid upon plaster while still damp.
4 There was a large fresco painting of Christ upon the cross, which particularly arrested my attention.
5 It seems that His Royal Highness's technical acquaintance with the processes of fresco painting was incomplete!
6 With one he went to Siena to assist him in some fresco painting he had to do there.
7 This is veritable fresco painting , and the colour was usually applied after the outline had been graven in the stone.
8 It resembles a "close of the fifth act" much more than beseems the serious character of fresco painting .
9 He dropped the fresco painting plea, but I had the impression that was only because it was all fixed anyway.
10 In the latter case any pictures should be set in specially arranged panels and should be pictures of importance, or fresco painting .
11 And here we may say a few words about fresco painting , which is such a marked feature in the Italian churches and buildings.
12 His finest work, the "Last Supper," a fresco painting at Milan, is much damaged, but fortunately good copies of it exist.
13 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 .
14 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.
15 Upon the other sides of the room were rude fresco paintings .
16 We now have fresco paintings of monstrosities, rather than truthful representations of definite things.
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