wall painting

noun

: fresco

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Colorful wall paintings with a variety of scenes, including men and women dancing alongside a flautist, a woman next to two men, and a metal workshop were found in tomb number 6438. Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 13 Feb. 2025 Deploying drawings, diagrams, musical notation, text, wall painting, and video, Kim explores how sound, silence, and oral language are social-political currencies that place the deaf at a constant disadvantage, in areas ranging from motherhood to politics. Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025 Thirteen hundred years ago, the monks on the German lake island of Reichenau tended a rich meadow of wall painting, manuscript making, and Latin poetry. Beatrice Radden Keefe, The New York Review of Books, 26 Sep. 2024 The wall painting has been deteriorating over time due to humidity, and the Guston Foundation enlisted Argentinian architect Luis Laplace to lead a plan to conserve it. Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 30 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wall painting

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1688, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of wall painting was circa 1688

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“Wall painting.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wall%20painting. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.

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