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Definition of Frescoes
1. fresco [v] - See also: fresco
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frescoes
Literary usage of Frescoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Giotto and Some of His Followers by Osvald Sirén (1917)
"THE PISAN frescoes WE know from historical documents that in 1342 Taddeo was
occupied on frescoes in the choir of San Francesco at Pisa. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In the frescoes the professional water-colour painter is evident. ... After a
journey to Rome, the painting of frescoes at Carls- rune, and a short stay at ..."
3. History of Painting by Karl Woermann (1885)
"His frescoes are the rather insipid mural paintings in the Convent of S. Anna in
Creta, near Pienza ; the Ascension of Christ in the castle chapel at ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1865)
"On the Premature Decay of the frescoes in tlie Houses of Parliament, ... The decay
of frescoes first shows itself as a bloom, rendering the whole surface ..."
5. The Art of Fresco Painting: As Practised by the Old Italian and Spanish by Mary Philadelphia Merrifield (1846)
"We find by the following letter from Nicholas Poussin that the frescoes of
Primaticcio at Fontainebleau, painted about 1540, were so much decayed as to ..."
6. Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers, and Their Works by Clara Erskine Clement Waters (1881)
"... of the same church; frescoes in the Servi (now destroyed) ; the façade of ...
and then, as has always been said, the great frescoes of the " Triumph of ..."
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