fresco
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1. fresco - Noun
2. fresco - Adjective
3. fresco - Verb
Meaning
A cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade.
The art of painting on freshly spread plaster, before it dries.
In modern parlance, incorrectly applied to painting on plaster in any manner.
A painting on plaster in either of senses a and b.
To paint in fresco, as walls.
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Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them into mortar with size. This will make a pretty black for fresco painting.
If it is a dying craft we can't do anything about it. Civilisation moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era.
.. [to capture] the magic of the ambiance. - [in the fresco which Goya made c. 1798 of Saint Anthony of Padua ].
Miss Asquith, who was probably unsurpassed in intelligence by any of her contemporaries ... looked like a lovely figure in an Italian fresco.
A fresco from 1st century AD depicting Polyphemus and Galatea in a naked embrace.
A statement from the family, from Midhurst, West Sussex, said: “Her last day was spent riding polo ponies in the morning, seeing friends on the beach in the afternoon and enjoying an evening with close friends and family over a delicious al fresco supper.