fresco-painting

The Royal Commission of Fine Arts was offering prizes for fresco-painting, and Watts felt that he must put his growing powers to the test and utilize what he had learnt.

Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

The favorite field of the early masters was fresco-painting.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various

The most important recipes of Cennino Cennini may be those which relate to fresco-painting; and as that is now likely to be nationally revived, this publication is well-timed.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various

Still, in spite of all forebodings, he continued his researches in fresco-painting, and wrote vehement letters to the papers, protesting against the threatened employment of Cornelius and other German artists.

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston

On the face of the pillars here some traces of fresco-painting are in some lights still to be seen.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire

_ -- The ordinary Greek white was melinum, an earth from the Isle of Melos; for fresco-painting the best was the African parœtonium.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

While at Rome his longing to express great conceptions in fresco-painting on a large scale had its first opportunity of fulfilment.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

The head of the Saviour bore a large crown of gilded thorns, and from the wound in His left side flowed a continuous stream of red gouts of blood, extraordinarily intense in colour (and intensity of colour is no common quality in fresco-painting).

Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Still, in spite of all forebodings, he continued his researches in fresco-painting, and wrote vehement letters to the papers, protesting against the threatened employment of Cornelius and other German artists.

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Paston, George, d. 1936 1902

And yet, looked at in a large way, the play is an excellent piece of historical fresco-painting.

The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919 1901