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Definition of Fresco
1. Verb. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall.
2. Noun. A mural done with watercolors on wet plaster.
3. Noun. A durable method of painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster.
Definition of Fresco
1. n. A cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade.
2. v. t. To paint in fresco, as walls.
Definition of Fresco
1. Noun. In painting, the technique of applying water-based pigment to wet or fresh lime mortar or plaster. ¹
2. Noun. A painting made using this technique. ¹
3. Verb. To paint using fresco ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fresco
1. to paint on a surface of plaster [v -ED, -ING, -ES or -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fresco
Literary usage of Fresco
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Other processes of painting on plaster have been invented to avoid the inconveniences
of the wet or fresco method. One is the "fresco- ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"He was employed to finish Masaccio's fresco in the Brancacci Chapel, representing
the Raising of the King's Son, and he showed himself to be in every ..."
3. Catalogue by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) (1894)
"15s 1875 " THE DEPOSITION FROM THE CROSS," from the fresco by ... 5* 1879 "TuE
RESURRECTION OF CHRIST," from the fresco by PIERO DELLA FBAN- ..."
4. The Arts in the Middle Ages, and at the Period of the Renaissance by P. L. Jacob, James Dafforne (1870)
"The Nature of fresco.—Employed by the Ancients.—Paintings at Pompeii.—Greek and
Roman • Schools.—Mural Paintings destroyed by the Iconoclasts and Barbarians ..."
5. The Graphic Arts: A Treatise on the Varieties of Drawing, Painting, and by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1891)
"fresco AND ITS SUBSTITUTES. fresco is simply the art of painting on fresh plaster,
... In pure fresco they are not mixed with any kind of gum, ..."
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