fresco
noun, plural fres·coes, fres·cos.
verb (used with object), fres·coed, fres·co·ing.
Origin of fresco
Related Words for fresco
portray, sketch, depict, coat, cover, draw, daub, wash, tint, design, decorate, dye, brush, illuminate, enliven, embellish, paint, darken, infuse, stainExamples from the Web for fresco
Contemporary Examples of fresco
And Pope Alexander VI had the painter Pinturicchio disguise his mistress as the Virgin Mary in one fresco.
As I read this, I imagined a fresco depicting the economic section of the document.
This 13th-century fresco of a lion was painted near Burgos in Spain, probably by an itinerant English artist from Winchester.
The Daily Pic: A Spanish fresco captures the fearless Middle Ages.
Cecilia Gimenez botched the restoration of a 19th-century Spanish fresco.
Historical Examples of fresco
There, just study that fresco, Moses and the daughters of Jethro.
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
Surely the world shall know you the first of painters in fresco!
PoemsWilliam D. Howells
In order to see the fresco, I had to get on the top of a loom.
Modern Painters Volume II (of V)John Ruskin
That picture he eventually transferred to his fresco, and there—O bitter irony!
The Strolling SaintRaphael Sabatini
It was painted on the wall, like a fresco; and how to remove it was the difficulty.