Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, for one

Usage examples of fresco.

It must not be forgotten that his modelled work derives an adventitious merit from the splendour of the frescoes with which it is surrounded, and from our admiration of the astounding range of power manifested by their author.

It was a long, low hall, hollowed, like all the rest, in the heart of the mountain, open in front, and adorned with frescoes and anaglyphs of curious design.

His fame rests principally on his frescoes at Orvieto, where, by a strange chance, he was appointed, after an interval of time, to continue and complete the work begun by Fra Angelico, the master most opposed to Signorelli in style.

Para mejor efectuar su negocio, a los 11 de Junio de 1606 estando en la baya, que beniamos de una isla que estaba cerca, bino a las ocho de la noche el viento Sul algo fresco, conque los amotinados pusieron por hobra su mal intento, y siendo de noche, y lejos de nosotros alsaron en popa, sin berlo ese hablador por estar en su camara de popa.

He looked up at the ornately carved ceiling painted with a fresco depicting the deva of storms, Indra.

Charles Gogin, unless when they are merely copied from frescoes or other sources.

Party candidate Albert Fresco sat in his kitchen madder than a sumbitch, watching a TV program showing preparations for the gubernatorial debate in downtown Tampa.

Vicenza by her father, who had removed there for a couple of years, having been engaged to paint frescoes in some houses in that city.

A magnificent repast was spread for the Laureate and his guest, in a lofty, richly frescoed banqueting-hall,--a repast voluptuous enough to satisfy the most ardent votary that ever followed the doctrines of Epicurus.

He glanced up at the mildewy ceiling with its peeling frescoed cherubs.

The mosaicists neatly inhabited one of a double set of temporary hutments, the other of which was the chaotic province of the fresco painters.

January overcast, accompanied by Piero Rosselli, a Livorno muralist who was known as the best preparer of walls for fresco.

Their smoky red light sent long shadows weaving across the flaking frescoes of the naos and put red sparks in the glossy black circle of the shrine.

This is the chamber commonly called the Pinacotheca, where Pausanias saw pictures or frescoes by Polygnotus.

Tinwright was puzzled to be in such a place, but felt a little better: surely they would not just kill him outright, if for no other reason than fear of getting blood on the celebrated wall frescoes.