fresco

fresque

Image peinte sur un mur ou un plafond dont l’enduit est encore humide.

En anglais simple : A picture painted on a wall or ceiling while its surface is still wet.

• A fresco covers the church ceiling.
• They restored the faded fresco above the door.
• The chapel contains several beautifully preserved frescoes.

Expressions courantes : ancient fresco, ceiling fresco, restore a fresco

peinture à fresque, fresque

Technique consistant à peindre avec des couleurs à l’eau sur l’enduit encore humide d’un mur ou d’un plafond.

En anglais simple : A way of painting with water-based colours on a wall or ceiling whose surface is still wet.

• The artist works in fresco.
• Fresco requires the painter to work before the plaster dries.
• We learned the basics of fresco at art school.

Expressions courantes : paint in fresco, fresco technique, fresco painting

fraîcheur

Air agréablement frais ou endroit frais et ombragé.

En anglais simple : Pleasantly cool air or a cool, shaded place.

• They rested in the fresco beneath the trees.
• We enjoyed the evening fresco after the day’s heat.
• The garden’s fresco offered relief from the summer sun.

Synonymes : coolness, shade

Contraires : heat

Expressions courantes : in the fresco, evening fresco

peindre à fresque

Peindre une image sur un mur ou un plafond dont l’enduit est encore humide.

En anglais simple : To paint a picture on a wall or ceiling while its surface is still wet.

• The artist will fresco the wall.
• She frescoed the ceiling with scenes of village life.
• Several painters helped to fresco the new chapel.

Comment l'utiliser : fresco something (They hired an artist to fresco the chapel ceiling.)

Expressions courantes : fresco a wall, fresco the ceiling