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Example sentences for "frescoed"

Lexicographically close words:
freris; fresca; fresch; fresche; fresco; frescoes; frescos; fresh; freshe; freshen
  1. In the vestibulum are remains of the mosaic floor and frescoed walls.

  2. He was tired of expressing his sense of beauty and the deep thoughts of his brain in sculptured marble or on frescoed surfaces.

  3. There Masaccio and his followers bequeathed to us noble examples of the grand style upon the frescoed panels of the chapel walls.

  4. Thus in 1526 Giovanni da Udine came from Rome to decorate the vault of the sacristy with frescoed arabesques.

  5. The spaces below the frescoed histories, down to the seats which ran along the pavement, were blank, waiting for the tapestries which Raffaello afterwards supplied from cartoons now in possession of the English Crown.

  6. The inn was filled with grave English people who looked respectable and bored, and there was of course a Church of England service in the gaudily-frescoed parlour.

  7. Inside, in the vaulted and frescoed chambers, the art of Italy.

  8. The central scene of the famous story is represented among the sculptured scenes of the church of St. Nicholas at Bari, and among the frescoed scenes at Santa Croce.

  9. This story is represented in one of the frescoed scenes in the Chapel of the Sacrament at Santa Croce in Florence and in the Franciscan Church at Assisi.

  10. I have not read or heard that the outsides of the houses of any other European city are frescoed in this way.

  11. The sides are daubed with a smooth white plaster, and tastefully frescoed aloft and alow with disks of camel-dung placed there to dry.

  12. A friend told me of her vivid recollection of some frescoed portraits on the walls of the former home of a prominent Quaker in Minneapolis.

  13. The scores of Quaker preachers and other visiting Friends who accepted the overflowing hospitality of this cheerfully frescoed house seem to have had none of the scruples of Massachusetts Friends of an earlier date.

  14. Uncle Junius said, 'It cost me a thousand dollars to have those things frescoed on, and they looked nice, too!

  15. At Altamira, near Santander, the superb frescoed ceiling was buried, long before Neolithic times, by the closing up of the entrance, which was rediscovered only about thirty years ago.

  16. This visit and that to the cavern of Altamira, with its wonderful frescoed ceiling, were in themselves a liberal education in the prehistory of man.

  17. A long lane as green as a spring meadow, lying between wall-like masses of foliage whose deep arcades were frescoed with blossoms and festooned with vines.

  18. From his woolly crown to the soles of his feet, my Zebra was frescoed in the most brilliant and artistic fashion.

  19. You can get permission to see its vaulted frescoed hall.

  20. Among the amenities of the old palace were the spacious and lovely gardens on the east, with their clipped hedges, avenues of trees, flower-beds and covered and frescoed walls, all kept fresh and green by channels of water.

  21. The door stood ajar, giving view of a frescoed wall within.

  22. Sacramental vessels glimmered at the feet of the frescoed saints.

  23. The walls were frescoed with Homeric scenes--Helen meeting Paris in the house of Menelaus, Achilles slaying Hector, Ulysses and Calypso.

  24. Where the law of harmony touches the delicately frescoed ceiling, reaches down to the luxuriously upholstered pews, finds its home in the trailing vines of the carpet, and breathes out in the roll of the deep-toned organ.

  25. Their imagination had not thought of reaching after frescoed ceilings.

  26. The excavations of the railway track have unearthed broken columns, frescoed walls of ancient rooms, and masses of travertino masonry, belonging to the walls which Servius Tullius, the fifth king of Rome, built around the city.

  27. The cornice was delicately traced against a pale-blue ceiling frescoed with silver, the most beautiful ceiling I have ever seen.

  28. That a company presenting such a variety of interests should have been brought together in the frescoed dining-room of that particular house is noteworthy.

  29. Snowy statuary gleamed amid the vivid foliage, and beneath the shadow of the frescoed corridors.

  30. The woodwork of the interior is of black walnut; the walls are finely frescoed and harmoniously tinted.

  31. Although every accommodation is furnished by the house, some of the tenants have chosen to go to the expense of decorating their own apartments, and have had their rooms elegantly frescoed and painted by some of the first artists in the city.

  32. It is handsomely frescoed and furnished in green rep.

  33. She stood up with a sigh, shook out her loosened hair, and glanced around the great frescoed room.

  34. In the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament there are more frescoed lives of saints by Taddeo's son, Agnolo Gaddi, less admirable than his work in the choir; and statues of two Franciscans, of the Della Robbia school.

  35. This Porta alla Croce, the eastern gate of Florence in the third walls, was commenced by Arnolfo di Cambio in 1284; the frescoed Madonna in the lunette is by one of the later followers of Ghirlandaio.

  36. In the lunettes along the walls are frescoed scenes from Genesis in terra verde, of which the most notable are by Paolo Uccello--the Flood and the Sacrifice of Noah.

  37. The vault was frescoed by Giovanni da Udine, but is now whitewashed.

  38. The side apses, which represent the right and left transepts, guarded by sixteenth century Apostles, and with frescoed Saints and Prophets in the chapels by Bicci di Lorenzo, are quite uninteresting.

  39. This last was frescoed in dull red with the white horse-head at intervals.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "frescoed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.