fresco-painted

Updated: May 7, 2025

And Don Vigilio did not even ring, but, after a fresh bow, discreetly turned the door-handle. A single petroleum lamp, placed on a table, lighted the ante-room, a large apartment with bare fresco-painted walls, simulating hangings of red and gold, draped regularly all around in the antique fashion.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete

Hearing it, I thought of those fresco-painted ceilings with mythological figures gods and goddesses with pink flesh and flowing curves, Apollo and Venus reclining on a mountain of pink and gold clouds, like a lovely dawn." "Chaplain, what has come to you?" said Gabriel; "this is not very Christian." "No, but it is artistic," said the musician simply.

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez - The Shadow of the Cathedral

And Don Vigilio did not even ring, but, after a fresh bow, discreetly turned the door-handle. A single petroleum lamp, placed on a table, lighted the ante-room, a large apartment with bare fresco-painted walls, simulating hangings of red and gold, draped regularly all around in the antique fashion.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete: Lourdes, Rome and Paris

One structure of nave, and choir, and transept, is imposed upon another; and the walls of both, from floor to coping-stone, are covered with fresco-painted pictures taking here the place occupied by mosaic in such churches as the cathedral of Monreale, or by coloured glass in the northern cathedrals of the pointed style. Many of these frescoes date from years before the birth of Giotto.

John Addington Symonds - Renaissance in Italy Volume 3: The Fine Arts

And Don Vigilio did not even ring, but, after a fresh bow, discreetly turned the door-handle. A single petroleum lamp, placed on a table, lighted the ante-room, a large apartment with bare fresco-painted walls, simulating hangings of red and gold, draped regularly all around in the antique fashion.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 1