Example sentences for: fresco

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

  • The stuffed egg dish is described, within the cordon culinaire that I frequent, as deviled egg and is usually associated with canapés served bugget style at picnics, and similar al fresco affairs.

  • 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.

  • We wonder how Michelangelo—a stonecutter's son who also came from a rural nowhere—found within himself the vision to see the shape of David in a block of discarded marble or the apolcalyptic fresco of The Last Judgment on the wall of the Sistine Chapel.

  • Behind the cathedral, the 16th-century Renaissance church of San Giovanni Evangelista also has in its dome a fine Correggio fresco of the Vision of St. John on Patmos.

  • Of the many halls, pavilions, and temples linked by broad courtyards, the most important is the Thousand Buddha Hall (dating back to 1588), with its fresco of monks engaging in battle.


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