Crossword clues for fresco
fresco
- Watercolor on wet plaster
- Painting on wet plaster
- Sistine Chapel mural
- Michelangelo's "The Last Judgment," e.g
- Michelangelo painting
- Work on a ceiling
- Watercolor painting
- Watercolor on fresh plaster
- Sistine Chapel sight
- Sistine Chapel painting, e.g
- Sistine Chapel art
- Painting using watercolours on plaster
- Painting on wet or dried plaster
- Painting on moist plaster
- Mural, sometimes
- Mural on wet plaster
- Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, for one
- Many a Giotto work
- Form of mural painting
- Forces (anag) — wall painting
- Church painting
- Art form in the Vatican's Raphael Rooms
- "The School of Athens," e.g
- In the open air
- "The Last Supper," e.g.
- "The Last Supper," for one
- A mural done with watercolors on wet plaster
- A durable method of painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster
- Plaster painting
- Certain painting
- Sistine Chapel artwork
- "The Creation of Adam," for one
- Mural painted on wet plaster
- Method of painting on walls
- Work of art characterised by originality largely, oddly cool
- Wall painting
- Wall decoration, almost new, and firm
- Style of wall painting
- Style of painting
- Slave turns up with company artwork
- Largely original company painting
- Painting on plaster
- Intelligence of that woman will make you fade
- Innovative business eschewing husband's artwork
- Michelangelo work
- Wall art
- Work on a wall
- Painting technique
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fresco \Fres"co\, n.; pl. Frescoes or Frescos. [It., fr. fresco fresh; of German origin. See Fresh, a.]
A cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade. [R.]
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(Fine Arts)
The art of painting on freshly spread plaster, before it dries.
In modern parlance, incorrectly applied to painting on plaster in any manner.
A painting on plaster in either of senses a and b .
Fresco \Fres"co\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frescoed; p. pr. & vb. n. Frescoing.] To paint in fresco, as walls.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, in fresco, literally "in fresh," with a sense of "painted on fresh mortar or plaster," from Italian fresco "cool, fresh," as a noun "coolness, fresh air," from Old High German frisc, from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (see fresh (adj.1)). As a verb from 1849. Related: Frescoed. In 17c.-18c. it also could mean "coolness, shade."
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) In painting, the technique of applying water-based pigment to wet or fresh lime mortar or plaster. 2 (context countable English) A painting made using this technique. 3 A cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade. vb. To paint using fresco
WordNet
n. a mural done with watercolors on wet plaster
a durable method of painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster
v. paint onto wet plaster on a wall
[also: frescoes (pl)]
Wikipedia
Fresco (plural frescos or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly-laid, or wet lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting becomes an integral part of the wall. The word fresco is derived from the Italian adjective fresco meaning "fresh", and may thus be contrasted with fresco-secco or secco mural painting techniques, which are applied to dried plaster, to supplement painting in fresco. The fresco technique has been employed since antiquity and is closely associated with Italian Renaissance painting.
Fresco is a painting technique.
Fresco may also refer to:
- Fresco (surname)
- "Fresco", the NATO reporting name for the Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 and Polish PZL-Mielec Lim-6
- Fresco (Stockhausen), a 1969 orchestral composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Fresco (Lindberg), a 1997 orchestral composition by Magnus Lindberg
- Fresco (web browser) a proprietary, embedded web browser for RISC OS and embedded platforms
- Fresco (windowing system) an obsolete windowing system intended as a replacement for the X Window System.
- The Fresco, a 2000 book by Sheri S. Tepper
- Fresco (board game), 2010 game
- Fresco (M People album), 1997
- Fresco (Jerry Rivera album), 1996
- Fresco EP, an 1983 EP by Icehouse
- Fresco, Côte d'Ivoire
Fresco is the fourth and final studio album by the British dance band M People. It includes the Top 10 singles " Just for You" and " Angel St", the hit single " Fantasy Island", and a cover version of the Roxy Music song "Avalon". The album reached number 2 in the UK Albums Chart, and was supported by a large UK arena tour. The tour confirmed M People as one of the UK's most successful live acts of the 1990s. Fresco became M People's last studio album. Various hit collections followed as well as two solo albums from lead singer Heather Small.
Fresco is a 2010 designer board game by Marco Ruskowski and Marcel Süßelbeck. It was nominated for the 2010 Spiel des Jahres award and won the 2010 Deutscher Spiele Preis.
Two expansions for the game were also released in 2010: Fresco: The Glaziers and Fresco: The Scrolls.
Fresco ("wall sounds for meditation") is an orchestral composition written in 1969 by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen as foyer music for an evening-long retrospective programme of his music presented simultaneously in three auditoriums of the Beethovenhalle in Bonn. It is Nr. 29 in his catalogue of works, and a performance takes about five hours.
Fresco is the sixth studio album recorded by Puerto Rican salsa singer Jerry Rivera released on August 20, 1996. The album received Grammy and Lo Nuestro nominations for Best Tropical Latin Album. The single "Loco de Amor" won a Tropical Award for the songwriter.
Fresco is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Jacque Fresco (born 1916), American polymath
- Louise Fresco (born 1952), Dutch scientist, director and writer
- Michael Fresco, American television director and producer
- Monte Fresco (1936–2013), English photographer
- Victor Fresco (born 1958), American film writer, brother of Michael
- Zohar Fresco (born 1969), Israeli percussionist and composer
ANT Fresco was a proprietary, embedded web browser produced by ANT Software Limited, a software development firm headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Fresco was superseded by Galio in 2004.
As an embedded web browser, Fresco was quite attractive due to its low hardware requirements. One of the first mainstream devices that used the Fresco web browser was the Prismiq Media Player released in 2003, and which featured 64 MB of RAM and a RISC CPU. The Prismiq media player received awards from print publications Financial Times and PC Magazine along with the website CNET. It supported HTML 4.01, JavaScript 1.3, optionally Macromedia Flash Player 5, SSL security, and anti-aliased fonts. IPTV tuners is another market niche where ANT's Fresco web browser has been used. By late 2006, ANT announced that Pace Micro Technology shipped its one millionth TV set-top box including its Fresco web browser.
The version of the Fresco browser as included in the Prismiq Media Player lacked support for AJAX and modern JavaScript. ANT addressed these shortcomings in ANT Galio, launched in 2004.
In computing, Fresco (formerly known as Berlin) was a windowing system intended as a replacement for the X Window System. It was free software, licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
As of October 23, 2008, the last activity in the project's CVS repository was dated June 11, 2004. The project website is no longer registered.
Fresco is an orchestral composition by the Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg. The work was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Its world premiere was given in Los Angeles on March 12, 1998 by the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the direction of Esa-Pekka Salonen, to whom the piece is dedicated.
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.