Definition of Frescoist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Frescoist

frequently
frequently asked questions
frequentness
frequentnesses
frequents
frere
freres
frescade
frescades
fresco
frescoed
frescoer
frescoers
frescoes
frescoing
frescoist (current term)
frescoists
frescolike
frescos
fresh(a)
fresh-cut
fresh-faced
fresh-water
fresh air
fresh as a daisy
fresh bean
fresh breeze
fresh country eggs
fresh fish

Literary usage of Frescoist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Fine Arts: A Manual by Gerard Baldwin Brown (1902)
"Let us imagine the Florentine frescoist, whom we have already seen transferring to the upright plane of his chapel-wall the processions and shows which ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Don Pedro de Madrazo in the Prado catalogue speaks of him as a mannered painter only to be appreciated as a frescoist. In 1765 Bayeu y Subías was chosen a ..."

3. The Romantic Triumph by Thomas Stewart Omond (1900)
"cloister to avoid debasing verisimilitude, Overbeck (1789-1869), the great frescoist, and others. Thus they in many ways anticipated both our Tractarian and ..."

4. Spanish Ironwork by Arthur Byne, Mildred Stapley Byne (1915)
"It is a story in iron told as freely as the frescoist would have proceeded on a given wall space. A conventional arrangement of lofty candelabras connected ..."

5. Modern French Masters by Marie Van Vorst (1904)
"The death of this great frescoist and painter leaves a place unfilled. He has had no equal, no predecessor, and his successor is not easy to name. ..."

6. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors & Architects of the Order of S by Vincenzo Fortunato Marchese, Charles Patrick Meehan (1852)
"... and also a good frescoist and historical painter. We cannot say where our artist was born, as his father was perpetually moving about from place to ..."

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