fresco

A technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid lime plaster, or a painting produced using this technique.

• 🇫🇷Technique de peinture murale exécutée sur un enduit de chaux frais, ou tableau réalisé selon cette technique.

1. Wall painting technique B2 formal art

   A method of painting water-based pigments on freshly applied lime plaster, typically on walls or ceilings.

   • The Sistine Chapel ceiling is a famous fresco by Michelangelo.
   • The ancient church is decorated with beautiful frescoes.
   • Restorers carefully cleaned the fresco to reveal its original colors.

   🇫🇷Fresque (technique de peinture murale)

2. A painting made using this technique B2 formal art

   A work of art created using the fresco method.

   • The museum has a collection of Renaissance frescoes.
   • This fresco depicts scenes from daily life in medieval times.
   • The artist spent months completing the large fresco on the chapel wall.

   🇫🇷fresque

• frescoes plural form
• frescos plural form
• frescoes' possessive plural form
• frescos' possessive plural form
• fresco's possessive singular form

A verb meaning to paint a mural on fresh plaster, typically in the technique of fresco painting.

• 🇫🇷Peindre une fresque sur un enduit frais, généralement selon la technique de la peinture à fresque.

1. Paint on fresh plaster C1 formal art

   To paint a mural or picture on a wall or ceiling using water-based pigments on freshly applied lime plaster.

   • The artist frescoed the chapel ceiling with scenes from the Bible.
   • They hired a master to fresco the entire dining hall.
   • The ancient Romans often frescoed their villas with mythological scenes.

   🇫🇷Peindre à fresque

• frescoed past participle
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• frescoing present participle
• frescoes third person singular