Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🎨 A wall painting 🎨 To paint plaster
to fresco

to fresco

7.8
To paint a picture on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling
  • verb
  • /ˈfrɛskoʊ/
translation icon : pintar al fresco
  • After mixing the colors, she frescoed the mural on the community center wall while the plaster was still wet.

Examples

  • The artist carefully frescoed the ceiling of the chapel, bringing the biblical scenes to life.

  • He demonstrated how to fresco by painting vibrant designs onto the moist plaster of the new building.

  • I'm just gently applying that to the crease as slow and steady start adding more layers of Bon Fresco to create more depth.

Synonyms

to muraled
vsto fresco
7.2

To paint a large picture on a wall

paints directly onto wet plaster using a specific plaster technique

Surface Forms

fresco infinitive
frescoed past
frescoed past participle
frescoes present participle

Etymology

The verb fresco comes from the Italian fresco, meaning 'fresh', because artists paint on wet, 'fresh' plaster so the paint becomes part of the wall. So, to fresco is to paint directly onto wet plaster.