Noun:

சுவரோவியம்,

fresco's Usage Examples:

The walls of the throne room show frescoes with sacred griffins confronting each other in a Nile landscape, and a small bath chamber - perhaps of ritual use - is attached.

Dress up for special date night dinners or alfresco lunches with the girls.

The beautiful frescoes with scenes from the life of the saint (a local saint who died at the age of fifteen) are the earliest work of Domenico Ghirlandaio, completed before 1475.

Both the roof and the walls are almost universally coated with stucco and covered with fresco paintings - in the earlier works merely decorative, in the later always symbolical or historical.

The walls of its chapel were frescoed by Giotto; but the whole building was ruined by, Ferdinand II.

The town hall (Rathaus), an edifice in the Italian style, erected in 1616-1619, contains frescoes by Dürer, and a curious stucco relief of a tournament held at Nuremberg in 1446.

In the Sala dei Nove or della Pace above are the noble allegorical frescoes of Ambrogio Lorenzetti representing the effects of just and unjust government; the Sala delle Balestre or del Mappamondo is painted by Simone di Martino (Memmi) and others, the Cappella della Signoria by Taddeo di Bartolo, and the Sala del Consistorio by Beccafumi.

It seems possible to trace some of the older and better frescos in the catacombs to a very early age; and Bible manuscripts were often copiously illuminated and illustrated even before the middle of the 4th century.

"Besides being a painter in oil and fresco Rousseau was an etcher of some ability; many etchings by his hand from the works of the Caracci and from his own designs still exist; they are vigorous, though coarse in execution.

A slightly raised decking area is perfect for alfresco dining and gives sea glimpses through the houses to the bay below.

Satiro are even earlier mosaics (5th century); there are also fine frescoes by Borgognone and Bernardino Lanini.

) character of the frescoes which ornament the walls and roof.

Alta staff offer gourmet dining inside, or an equally elegant al fresco meal on the foredeck.

Synonyms:

wall painting, mural,

Antonyms:

uncover,