fresco
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One of the leader’s admirers, a restorer working on a fresco at Rome’s Basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina, etched her likeness onto the face of an angel holding up a map of Italy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
They have refused to play some nights, on one occasion putting on a free al fresco show a few winding streets away instead.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
Go the Capitol rotunda and look up at the dome, where Constantino Brumidi’s fresco The Apotheosis of Washington, painted during the Civil War, shows Washington in heaven, flanked by goddesses.
From Slate • Feb. 16, 2026
An artist who restored a fresco in a church in central Rome with a likeness of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has wiped out his own artwork after it sparked outrage.
From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026
It took a moment before I realized that it was a leafy replica of Michelangelo’s fresco of Adam from the Sistine Chapel.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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