Definition of "fresco" []

• The art of painting on fresh, moist plaster with pigments dissolved in water. (noun)
• A painting executed in this way. (noun)
• To paint in fresco. (verb-transitive)

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• "I especially like the texture of the image, almost like a fresco from a forgotten time."
• "He explained the general rules of color composition in fresco, enamel, and pastel painting, showing how to use his wheel and chart together as a tool to select the appropriate color combinations for each technique."
• "The walls of one among them were entirely covered with scriptural pictures in fresco of rather coarse execution, but still tolerably preserved, excepting the heads, of which no doubt"