 | Joseph Guy - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1810 - 548 pages
...walls, on -wood, canvas, stones, and all sorts of metals. Fresco, is a kind of pairtting performed on fresh plas'ter, or on a wall laid with mortar not yet dry ; and with .water-colours. This sort of painting has a great advantage by incorporating with the mortar,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...cascade. FRESCO, a method of painting in relievo on walls, eo as to endure the weather. It is performed with water-colours on fresh plaster, or on a wall laid with mortar not yet dry, This sort of painting has a great advantage by its incorporating with the mortar; and drying along... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English language - 1824 - 852 pages
...Often; commonly; not rarely. Swift. FRJSISCO. nt [Ital.] Coolness; shade; duskiness. Prior. A painting on fresh plaster, or on a wall laid with mortar not yet dry ; used for alcoves and other buildings in the open air. Tatler. Sometimes used for any cool, refreshing... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 432 pages
...method of painting in relievo on walls, so 83 to endure the weather. It is performed with water colors on fresh plaster, or on a wall laid with mortar not yet dry. This sort of painting has a great advantage by its incorporating with the mortar, and, drying along... | |
 | 1843 - 610 pages
...hitherto but little cultivated in this country. Fresco, as most of our readers are aware, is " a painting on fresh plaster, or on a wall laid with mortar not yet dry"; * and the composition of this plaster is, consequently, a point of the highest interest to the artist.... | |
 | William Bolles - English language - 1846 - 960 pages
...fres-ka'dz, n. pL Cool walks; shady places. FRESCO, fres-TtA, n. Coolness; shade: duskiness. A painting on fresh plaster, or on a wall laid with mortar not yet dry; used for alcoves and other buildings in the open air. Cool refreshing liquor. FRESH, fresh', a. Cool;... | |
 | William Bolles - English language - 1846 - 700 pages
...Frequently, fr&koent 13, ad. often, commonly. Fresco, fre^kS, n. coolness, shade, duskiness; a painting; nn fresh plaster, or on a wall laid with mortar not yet dry, used for alcoves and other buildings in the open air. Fresh, fresh', a. cool, not vapid with heat ;... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1847 - 388 pages
...quantities, showing the velocity with which they increase or decrease. Fresco painting is executed on fresh plaster, or on a wall laid with mortar not yet dry, so that the colors will dry in the mortar, or plaster, and become permanent. Fulcrum, the point of support... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1847 - 448 pages
...cord round the waist, to which is suspended a rope with a knotted scourge. Fresco painting is executed on fresh plaster, or on a wall laid with mortar not yet dry, so that the colors will dry in the mortar or plaster, and become permanent. Friesland, or country of the Prisons,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1847 - 384 pages
...quantities, showing the velocity with which they increase or decrease. Fresco painting is executed on fr*h plaster, or on a wall laid with mortar not yet dry, so that the colors will dry in the mortar, or plaster, and become permanent. Fulcrum, the point of support... | |
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It is performed with water-colours on fresh plaster, or on a wall laid with mortar not yet dry... 
