Example sentences for: fresco

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The Queen’s Megaron has a splendid dolphin fresco lining one wall.

  • The “mysteries” are those depicted in a vast fresco of a young woman’s initiation into the cult of Dionysius of Greek origin.

  • Archaeologists digging under the ruins of the residential palace of Roman tyrant Nero earlier this month stumbled on an astonishing find: a 10-foot-by-6-foot fresco, faded but almost completely intact.


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