Example sentences for: fresco

How can you use “fresco” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • They come together in the palace’s Salone or Great Hall with Pietro da Cortona’s dazzling illusionist ceiling fresco, Triumph of Divine Providence.

  • Within the cloister, in the north gallery, is a striking fresco of the Triumph of Death (1360) showing how a humble person and an aristocrat face the same destiny.

  • Inside, Andrea Pozzo (himself a Jesuit priest and designer of the saint’s tomb at the Gesù) has painted a superb trompe l’oeil ceiling fresco (1685) depicting St. Ignatius’ entry into paradise.

  • This may be par for the course of most artistic careers; the distinction here is that he has repeated himself in ever more exalted and expensive media (reflective metals, Japanese ceramics, fresco), which just gild the funk, sapping its life.

  • Don’t miss the upstairs chapel for Benozzo Gozzoli’s 15th-century fresco of the Journey of the Magi to Bethlehem.


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