(a.) A cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade.
(a.) The art of painting on freshly spread plaster, before it dries.
(a.) In modern parlance, incorrectly applied to painting on plaster in any manner.
(a.) A painting on plaster in either of senses a and b.
(v. t.) To paint in fresco, as walls.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some art experts have petitioned against Seracini drilling through the Vasari fresco, claiming any paint found behind might have been left by another artist.
(2) It is in a majestic salon, the walls of which are decorated with flamboyant 18th-century Flemish tapestries with a Tiepolo fresco adorning the ceiling, while the terrace overlooks a landscaped garden.
(3) What’s new here is understanding how air works in this space and also adding the ‘intelligent’ aspect.” Paolucci was hosting a conference on Wednesday on the state of the chapel 20 years after the controversial restoration of its frescoes.
(4) We carry out regular checks and maintenance, taking off the hard dust that’s been deposited on the frescoes.
(5) I'd been reading about frescoes and fresco restoration.
(6) SuperSub Monastery art, southern Serbia Facebook Twitter Pinterest Frescoes at Zica Monastery, near Kraljevo.
(7) Expect traditional Pakistani home cooking in big pans, served al fresco if the weather is behaving itself.
(8) The recovery rate (Rr) in the Atole villages was 12% higher than in the Fresco villages (P less than 0.05).
(9) A mixed crowd of senior citizens and vintage car devotees here for an al fresco auction slurp their tea and ice creams and quietly look on.
(10) The air extraction system designed to suck out the humid breath, sweat, skin flakes, hair, dust and pollution wafting up towards the frescoes was almost 20 years old and urgently needed replacing, he said.
(11) Discharging firearms in public, second count: He allegedly fired a gun through a car sunroof while with then girlfriend Samantha Taylor and Fresco on 30 November 2012.
(12) Nothing of it shows above ground; 20ft down is a confused, inaccessible jumble of rooms, corridors and frescoes, buried beyond the reach of the public, an enormous Tut's tomb with nothing of value in it.
(13) Roux again went on the offensive, questioning why Fresco did not mention being asked to take the blame for the incident in his initial police statement.
(14) The colours appeared unnatural, he said, noticing changes to the decorate sections of the frescoes.
(15) Another effect of the new lights is to draw greater attention to the splendour and vivid colours of the frescoes lining the chapel, which include works by Botticelli, Ghirlandaio and Perugino.
(16) One of two food supplements, atole and fresco, were given to pregnant and lactating mothers and the infants born to them up to three years of age.
(17) Ostia Antica also boasts some unusually well-preserved mosaics and frescoes.
(18) Late last year researchers drilled tiny holes in a later fresco on the wall in the Palazzo Vecchio which conceals the cavity.
(19) Rickety stairs lead up into black bordello-inspired corridors, while the romantic rooms are individually decorated with flea market furniture, swirling frescoes and erotic photos.
(20) But back in the General Staff's Versailles-like HQ, among the columns, frescos and sweeping staircases, the Fragonards and the Bouchers on the walls and the marble floors underfoot, the aristocrats and the officer class – their faces mean, smug, scarred or fat – trade ghastly obscenities about acceptable death tolls and national honour, their moral universe and patterns of thought throttled by protocol, precedent, military codes and banal social etiquette.