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Definition

a method of artistic painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster; or the painting made in such a manner

I love Michelangelo's ceiling fresco in the Sistine Chapel.

Enormous frescoes of saints, warriors, and angels are painted across the walls.
Stephanie Perkins -- Anna and the French Kiss

frescoes = wall paintings created with water colors or wet plaster

I pause beneath the frescoed nymphs and satyrs.
Stephanie Perkins -- Anna and the French Kiss
I watch people take pictures of the frescoes.
Stephanie Perkins -- Anna and the French Kiss
The ceiling on the first floor is impossibly high, dripping with chandeliers and frescoed with flirting nymphs and lusting satyrs.
Stephanie Perkins -- Anna and the French Kiss
Indeed I can show you her portrait in a fresco of Ghirlandaio's.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
Still drifting along and talking, they scarcely noticed that they were now in a part of the cave whose walls were not frescoed.
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
I had my own lake, three hundred rooms, frescoes of gold, mosaics done in pearls and diamonds—I could finally live like a human being!
Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
He smiled at me then—the sort of smile you see on the faces of saints in frescoes, and that makes you wish you knew their secret.
Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart
These forms are more agreeable to the fancy and imagination than fresco paintings or other the most expensive furniture.
Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
The walls had once been brightly painted, but most of the frescoes had peeled or faded.
Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
Ironically, chubby cherubs look down at us from the frescoed ceiling.
Susan Ee -- Angelfall
With the passage of time, Alba filled not only one but all her bedroom walls with an immense fresco.
Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
There was nothing above them but the frescoed ceiling, cracked and black in places as if it had been burned in a fire.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones
It took a moment before I realized that it was a leafy replica of Michelangelo's fresco of Adam from the Sistine Chapel.
Ransom Riggs -- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
It is only in accordance with general principles of human nature that the "bloofer lady" should be the popular role at these al fresco performances.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula
Indeed I can show you her portrait in a fresco of Ghirlandaio's.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
We became meticulous and terse, diminished the scope of our movements, buttered our bread in the manner of technicians restoring a fresco.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
Short verses to the painted women in the frescoes which spoke of love in all its confusions and brokenness.
Michael Ondaatje -- Running in the Family
The monks, Babi said, painted beautiful frescoes along the walls and roofs of their caves.
Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns

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