fresco

The extraordinary sanctuary offers a “fully private backyard paradise,” the listing states, complete with an al fresco kitchen, fire pit, and tranquil koi pond.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

Renata Pintus, who heads the masonry department at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence's famous restoration workshop, told AFP it had been a "privilege" to work on Giotto's famous fresco cycle.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

During warmer months, the patio offers an excellent spot for al fresco dining.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026

It also invites comparison with Giotto’s celebrated fresco of the crucifixion in the transept of the lower church.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 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

We would be sipping ice-cold spritzes at cafés overlooking the Mediterranean, frolicking down cobblestone streets lined with charming boutiques, and marveling at the frescoes and marble sculptures adorning grand cathedrals.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

Giotto's Santa Croce frescoes are receiving the final touches of a four-year restoration in Florence, with scaffolding poised to be removed ahead of an official reveal in September.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

Shockwaves from a March 9 airstrike also damaged tiles and cracked frescoes at the 17th-century Chehel Sotoun Palace in Isfahan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Even the prosecutor touring a buried villa that’s become a crime scene, illegally stripped of its frescoes, bemoans what’s been lost when thieves rob a people of their ancestors’ memories.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

The monks, Babi said, painted beautiful frescoes along the walls and roofs of their caves.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

Rivera’s monumental frescos require constant scraping and repainting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

The frescos on the ceiling, the intricate wooden and stone carvings that punctuate the space, they’re all in perfect condition.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025

For the frescos that must stay in position, a plaster glue is injected to their rear to prevent them coming away from the walls.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2024

Inside the breathtaking Art Deco interiors of the Palais de la Porte Doree, Issey Miyake ’s guests admired wall-to-wall frescos and bas-reliefs of exotic scenes lit up in dappled lighting.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

Of Girolamo da Vignola, a few frescos remain at S. Piero.

From The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Antonio Lanzi

Once virtually lost to memory after being painted over with whitewash, the frescoes began to be uncovered in the mid-19th century -- but the work left scratches and pockets of white on the frescoed walls.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

The New York County Courthouse's Roman façade and frescoed interiors have played backdrop to many iconic movies and television shows - perhaps, most famously, Goodfellas.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2023

On Tuesday, the two autocratic presidents will dine at a state banquet in a richly frescoed hall used by a long line of Russian czars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2023

His body first laid in state in the frescoed Clementine Hall for Vatican staff and then was moved to St. Peter's Basilica for viewing by the public.

From Reuters ● Dec. 30, 2022

The whole of the apse had been taken over by a monumental furnace, and a brick chimney cut right up through the center of the frescoed dome, obliterating the heads of angels.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

The medium made famous by Michelangelo, da Vinci and Fra Angelico, frescoing is a delicate process that entails crushing pigments and painting them into wet plaster before it dries.

From Washington Post ● May 6, 2021

Near the end of his torturous years of frescoing, Michelangelo was painting right over the elevated area where the pope would sit on his gilded throne.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2012

What with sculpturing and frescoing, they had made that most fantastic wilderness the Painted Desert.

From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest

There is none of the "dim, religious light" in the interior decoration of white and gold, the subtle colouring of the symbolic frescoing and the brilliance of the gold and brazen altar furnishing.

From Famous Firesides of French Canada by Mary Wilson Alloway

It seemed as if some goblin Michel Angelo had here done his carving and frescoing at the command of the lords of hell.

From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest