Example sentences for: frescoes

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  • Visit La Merced church opposite to see peeling frescoes and the venerated objects stored in the crypt.

  • The Bishop White Gallery features Buddhist and Taoist frescoes of the 13th-century Yuan Dynasty, under Emperor Kublai Khan, along with some monumental polychrome and gilded wooden statues of the Buddha.

  • The richly decorated Borgia Apartments contain Pinturicchio’s frescoes with portraits of the Spanish Borgia Pope Alexander VI and his notorious son Cesare and daughter Lucrezia, and leads into the collection of modern religious artwork opened in 1973 by Paul VI.

  • The 26 richly-decorated salons (just a fraction of the Medici residence) are named after the themes of their 17th-century frescoes — Venus, Hercules, Prometheus, etc.

  • Inside, on the ceiling of the central octagonal dome, are Correggio’s greatest masterpieces, his frescoes of the Assumption of the Virgin (1530) where he achieved, in the truest sense, exalting emotion without the sentimentality of Mannerist imitators.


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