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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
- 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
frescoes = wall paintings created with water colors or wet plaster
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