Sentence examples for fresco as from inspiring English sources

Though the mural itself is no longer extant, Reckoning with "The Incident": John Wilson's Studies for a Lynching Mural brings together nearly all of the known preparatory sketches and painted studies for the fresco, as well as related drawings and prints.

These outcrops showing colours deterioration appear on the fresco as whitish areas of variable size.

One of the canons of the cathedral is said to have described the fresco as "a stew of frogs legs".

Watts' preference for the dry, uncompromising medium of fresco, as opposed to more immediately seductive oil paint, was a further example of his passionate high-mindedness.

In fact, Smith had already been considering the idea of fresco as a conceptual framework for a book; the notion of the underdrawing of the image being a presence beneath the surface, unseen yet present.

They lapse into a state of what might be called hibernation al fresco, as their oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production drop and their metabolic rate slows by about a third.

He called Gentile Bellini from Venice to decorate the walls of his palace with frescoes as well as to paint his portrait (now in the National Gallery, London).

But the monastery – part of a clutch of Unesco-protected buildings dotting this ancient Roman settlement and Lombard powerhouse of the Middle Ages – boasts frescoes as vivid as Missoni's knitwear.

It has 15th-century churches, 16th-century fountains and 17th-century frescoes, as well as medieval towers that dot the skyline and a university founded at the turn of the 11th century.

The centre of south German painting had by the late 1730s shifted from Munich to Augsburg in Swabia, where Johann Georg Bermüller became the director of the Academy in 1730; but his frescoes, as well as those of Franz Joseph Spiegler and Gottfried Bernhard Goetz, are perhaps more representative of the Late Baroque than the Rococo.

It's an hour's walk from the village to the Goreme Open-Air Museum, which has more than 30 cave churches, many with well-preserved frescoes, as well as to the hilltop town of Uchisar, with a fort dug out of a tufa rock the size of a Manhattan office building.