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  • noun Plural form of fresco.

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Examples

  • The over-whelming feeling I had when I saw the complex architecture and intricate frescoes from the 13th-century was that Mayan culture was equal to the Spanish and it is unfortunate that the Mayans did not have the ability to keep their culture alive.

    Touring Mexico's Yucatan ruins 2008

  • The over-whelming feeling I had when I saw the complex architecture and intricate frescoes from the 13th-century was that Mayan culture was equal to the Spanish and it is unfortunate that the Mayans did not have the ability to keep their culture alive.

    Touring Mexico's Yucatan ruins 2008

  • The over-whelming feeling I had when I saw the complex architecture and intricate frescoes from the 13th-century was that Mayan culture was equal to the Spanish and it is unfortunate that the Mayans did not have the ability to keep their culture alive.

    Touring Mexico's Yucatan ruins 2008

  • The Georgian church, with its primitive and austere frescoes, is a fighting peasants 'church whose aim is sheer survival.

    Where Europe Vanishes 2000

  • The Georgian church, with its primitive and austere frescoes, is a fighting peasants 'church whose aim is sheer survival.

    Where Europe Vanishes 2000

  • Even though they are often referred to as frescoes, the Peruzzi scenes were actually painted "a secco", or on dry plaster, unlike his famous frescos in the Bardi Chapel, which is also in Santa Croce, or his works in St Francis in Assisi.

    News24 Top Stories 2010

  • On Thursday, Koch will discuss color in Italian frescoes (using images from his trip to Pompeii last year) and Native American portraits by George Catlin.

    Ventura County Star Stories 2010

  • In 1462, Ficino decorated the Medici villa at Careggi (home to the Platonic Academy) with astrological signs,10 an ornamental scheme also found in frescoes of the Sala dei Mesi at the Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara (1470) ,11 and in ceilings of the Medici palace at Florence (1456), whose lapis lazuli and gold-leaf ornament offered admirers a sparkling abstraction of the starry sky. 12 We can imagine a similar heavenly apparition in the gold and sapphire ceiling of the Urbino studiolo, especially when illuminated by a setting sun or candlelight.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • The walls and ceiling had been painted in frescoes.

    The Rock of Cashel, Ireland « Colleen Anderson 2009

  • A favourite plant in the frescoes is the papyrus, treated in various decorative ways: but the papyrus did not, as far as we know, grow in Crete in the Minoan period, so the frescoes do not factually depict the Cretan landspace.

    The myth of the secular 2009

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