| 单词 | fresco |
| 释义 | fresco (once / 1251 pages) nv Whether you've studied art history or not, you're probably familiar with the world's most famous fresco: Michelangelo's paintings on the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. To paint a fresco, you must apply paint to still wet plaster, and you better get it right the first time. Too slow and the plaster hardens, and then you've got a lot of chipping away to do. Fresco comes from the Italian fresco, meaning "cool" or "fresh," which describes exactly the fast, unlabored technique required of fresco painting. WORD FAMILYfresco: frescoed, frescoes, frescoing, frescos USAGE EXAMPLESOn his watch, the museums installed a new climate-control system in the Sistine Chapel and restored Raphael’s “School of Athens” frescoes. New York Times(Dec 21, 2016) Take Rivera’s remarkable frescoes for the Neo-Classical courtyard loggia of the education ministry in Mexico City. Los Angeles Times(Nov 23, 2016) The process eerily echoed that of making a fresco. The New Yorker(Nov 20, 2016) 1n a mural done with watercolors on wet plaster Hyper mural, wall painting a painting that is applied to a wall surface 2n a durable method of painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster Hyper painting creating a picture with paints 3v paint onto wet plaster on a wall Hyper paint make a painting |
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