As we turned to enter the sacristy, from which a stairway leads to the upper church, Miss Morris called our attention to a very interesting fresco of the Madonna and Child near the door of the sacristy.
In Rome he executed in Santa Maria in Aracoeli a fresco of "St Anthony and Two Angels.
In the same church, in the chapel of St Jerome, is a fresco by Gozzoli of the Virgin and Saints, the Crucifixion and other subjects.
Very slowly the great fresco of the Last Supper grew under the master's hand until it was nearly finished.
The Pope began to think it was an evil omen to build his own tomb, so he made up his mind that Michelangelo should instead set to work to fresco the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
At first young Titian worked with Giorgione, and together they began to fresco the walls of the Exchange above the Rialto bridge.
It was many years before the ceiling was finished or the finalfresco of the Last Judgment painted upon the end wall.
Meanwhile there was plenty of work for the young artist, and when he set up his own studio with another young painter, he was at once invited to fresco the walls of the cloister of the Scalzo, or bare-footed friars.
How the brothers must have crowded round to see each new fresco as it was finished, and how anxious they would be to see which picture was to be near their own particular bed.
Year after year Leonardo worked at that wonderful frescoof the Last Supper.
Even the great poet Dante did not scorn to be a friend of the peasant painter, and we still have the portrait which Giotto painted of him in an old fresco at Florence.
He offered the monks a new home, and, when they were settled in the convent of San Marco in Florence, he invited Fra Angelico to fresco the walls.
Especially they would stand before the frescowhich shows St. Peter baptizing a crowd of people.
His great fresco was even now fading away and becoming dim and blurred.
Giorgione early became known as a great artist, and when he was quite a young man he was employed by the city of Venice to fresco the outside walls of the new German Exchange.
It happened once when he was in Florence that a certain prior begged him to come and fresco the walls of his convent.
And in that fresco they would study more than all the figure of a boy who has just come out of the water, shivering with cold, the most natural figure that had ever been painted up to that time.
The fresco by Giotto is much, but the vault it adorns was planned first.
The talk then turned on the encouragement of fresco painting in England.
In all that related to practical dexterity (the department in which it was assumed that some instruction for fresco would be necessary), the English were particularly skilful.
Upon the other sides of the room were rude fresco paintings.
For this I have cleared all the site of the buildings, and in course of the work several rooms with portions of painted fresco pavements have been found.
So is also the dim fresco of daisies and trefoils, as delicate in design as it is true to nature, still visible on the southern wall.
A curious fresco on the north wall of the church is thought to represent King Edward the Second.
In this church, upon the east wall of the south aisle is a fine fresco of Thomas a Becket, dating from within a few decades of his own lifetime.
Confronting it across the stream is the steeple of Kingston, where there is a fine fourteenth century fresco in the north aisle, and a delicious little niche in the western wall of the tower, outside.
The little church has an ancient fresco of St. Christopher, placed, as usual, opposite the entrance.
In 1519 he was invited to Treviso to fresco the façade of a house for one of the Raviguino family.
No one has left so few easel-paintings as Pordenone; fresco was so much better suited to his particular style.
In the St. George we probably see the portrait of the great personage in whose honour the fresco was painted.
The love of the Venetians for decorating the exterior of their palaces with fresco led to Giorgione being largely employed on work which was unhappily a grievous waste of time and talent, as far as posterity is concerned.
In 1365 Guariento, a Paduan, was employed by the State to paint a huge fresco of Paradise in the Hall of the Gran Consiglio of the Ducal Palace.
The fresco left by Altichiero, Pisanello's first master, in the Church of S.
His "Supper of Herod" reminds us of Masolino's fresco at Castiglione d' Olona.
It opens at once into a lofty hall, the ceiling of which is painted in fresco by an Italian master.
The rooms were as small as those of a private house, and painted in the pretty fresco common in Italy.
A third work by the master at Rome is a repainted fragment at the Lateran of a fresco of Pope Boniface VIII.
Among his architectural works not already mentioned is the Villa Madama in Rome, with a fresco of Polyphemus, and boys and satyrs; the Ionic facade of this building may have been sketched out by Raphael.
That altar-picture finished, those fathers resolved that I should paint infresco on the facade the stories that were to be there, whereupon I painted over the door a picture of the hermitage, with S.
In the Abbey of the Black Friars at Florence, in the upper cloister, he painted in fresco a story from the life of S.
In like manner, half-way up the staircase of the same convent, I painted in fresco a S.
In those same days I executed in fresco for the Nuns of S.
In the garden of the Sisters called the Poverine, he painted in fresco a most beautiful tabernacle, wherein is Christ appearing to the Magdalene in the form of a gardener.
The fine fresco by Mainardi, in the Baroncelli Chapel, is an instance; and I must cite one yet finer, that by Ghirlandajo in the choir of S.
Her sickness and last farewell to the Apostles; bending towards St. John, she takes his hands in hers with the same tender expression as in the fresco by Taddeo Bartola.
This first vision of the angel is not in works of art easily distinguished from the second vision but there is a charming fresco by Luini, which can bear no other interpretation.
One is a fresco by Giovanni di San Giovanni, which, having been cut from the wail of some suppressed convent, is now in the academy at Florence.
A most interesting early example is the series painted in fresco by Taddeo Gaddi, in the Baroncelli Chapel at Florence.
In a fresco by Taddeo Gaddi, it is thus figured; and this is the only instance I can remember.
Is the fresco by Taddeo Gaddi (in the Baroncelli Chapel), Joachim is seated on a rocky mountain, at the base of which his sheep are feeding, and turns round to listen to the voice of the angel.
In the fresco by Taddeo Gaddi we have the same artless grace, the same dramatic grouping, and the same faults of drawing and perspective as in the other compartments of the series.
The most celebrated, I believe, is the fresco by Baldassare Peruzzi, in which the figure of the sibyl is certainly very majestic, but the rest of the group utterly vulgar and commonplace.
There is also in the same series a fresco of the Last Supper as the Eucharist, in which the Virgin is kneeling, glorified, on one side of the picture, and appears as a partaker of the rite.
On their homeward journey they are, in some few instances, embarking in a ship: this occurs in a fresco by Lorenzo Costa, and in a bas-relief in the cathedral of Amiens.
The fresco decorations of the Ludwigskirche, which were for the most part designed and executed by Cornelius, are perhaps the most important mural works of modern times.
The largefresco of the Last Judgment, over the high altar in that church, measures 62 ft.
On a fresco discovered at Phaestus (Hagia Triada) (fig.
Even as a fresco painter his manipulative power was not great.
In the church of the Annunciation, "Parma," a fresco of the Annunciation, now all but perished.
His opinion was in every way favourable to the carrying out of the project, and even in respect of the durability of fresco in the climate of England.
There is a fresco of Medea at Pompeii in which the figure of the mother brooding over the thought of murdering her children is weak and unconvincing.
There is indeed one fresco left in the old refectory, now a shop.
The case is similar with the fresco of Perseus and Andromeda.
Set this Medea in her place in the Pompeian fresco and the result may well be the Medea of Timomachus, one of the most famous pictures of all antiquity.
There is a fresco of a bull still preserved, and reproduced in Dr.
He competed with Guido in the fresco of the Lodovisi Aurora, a substantial work certainly, yet one that lacks the saving qualities of the Rospigliosi ceiling--grace and geniality of fancy.
When the fresco was finished, he set the old artist upon his last great task of completing S.
I propose to take her to the church of San Frediano and to show her the ancient fresco representing the discovery of the Holy Countenance; also the Trenta chapel, containing the tombs of my family.
While he was speaking the marchesa entered the sala, passing close under the fresco of the vaguely-sailing ships upon the wall.
The vaulted ceiling, divided into compartments by heavy panels, is profusely gilt, and painted in fresco by Venetian masters; but the gold is dulled by age, and the frescoes are but dingy patches of what once was color.
I have never seen Mendelssohn, but there is a fresco of him on the terrace, or open-air dining-room, of an inn at Chiavenna.
There is no real hair and no fresco background, only three dingy old blistered pictures of no interest whatever.
True, in the case of the Birth of the Virgin chapel at Montrigone, there is no real hair and no fresco background, but time has had abundant opportunities without these.
On the river side of the palace there is an octagonal pavilion placed similarly to the Samman Burj, which is very charming in its fresco decoration, though the colour has faded very much.
Inside the building there are remains of fresco and other painted decoration.
The two mosques of red sandstone on either side of the Taj are in the same style as the entrance gateway, the interiors being decorated with fresco and fine cut plaster-work.
The whole building was originally covered with fresco paintings and gilding, and was hence called the Sonahra Makân, or "Golden House.
Originally the walls were entirely covered by fresco paintings, but only a few fragments now remain.
I saw yesterday an exquisite drawing of a marvellous fresco discovered in Pompeii.
You saw in Pompeii the little temple of Isis; it was near this that the fresco in question was found.
You will see there, also, a very beautiful fresco of the Vatican.
The method of producing thesefresco paintings (al fresco calco) necessitated the employment of a practical plasterer besides the painter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fresco" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
