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fresco
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Definition:a painting method where paint is applied to fresh plaster such that the color becomes integrated into the wall surface.
image: [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The old neglected palazzo, with its lofty carved ceilings and frescoes on the walls,
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marking, as the radiance upon an old wall still marks the place of a vanished fresco, the difference between those parts of the tree which had and those which had not been ‘in bloom’
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] Swann’s Way
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It was a magnificent site, a fortress with eighteen towers over a hundred feet tall, covered in Kufic inscriptions, majolica, and frescoes.
Melania G. Mazzucco. Limbo (Virginia Jewiss translation), p.238 (2014)
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