Word: frescoing
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...green uniform of a French Academician ("I can keep you fresh without any sprigs of parsley," complained Juliette). Next, he affronted his disciples by persuading King Louis Philippe to make him a vicomte. Three months later the new peer was caught in bed with the wife of a fresco painter, and that ditched his hope of becoming a minister. "Adultery at that time was severely dealt with," and Peer Hugo would have been prosecuted if the King (as the wits said) had not hastily commissioned from the angry husband a series of frescoes, which caused him to forgive his wife...
...Chigi's palace, also made the Vatican shine with Christian and pagan subjects, depicting the company of the saints and a synod of ancient sages opposite one another, making companion pictures of the fall of Adam and Eve and the flaying of Marsyas, and facing an allegorical fresco of the three chief Christian virtues with one of Parnassus...
Along Manhattan's broken-spirited Bowery, they would be called bums, but the sentimental Parisians have a fancier name for those uncounted thousands of their compatriots who, unshaved, unwashed and unnoticed, scratch out a life al fresco in the shadows of Notre-Dame, the teeming Les Halles markets and the Seine bridges. The French of Paris call their dedicated bums les clochards (ones who limp), and think of them as the spiritual descendants of the great and vagrant Francois Villon...
...could guess who had tampered with the fresco, but apparently the damage was done centuries ago. Hardest to explain was the fact that, over those centuries, artists and scholars without exception accepted the mulish impostor as Michelangelo's work. "Probably," says De Campos, "it's because people take things for granted when a big name is involved...
...spacious Sever room suitable for the limited numbers who could be expected to show up for an untried lecturer. By the time rescue teams cut their way through the horde of frantic culture-seekers innundating Sever, the adaptable Registrar rescheduled the course, but for a while MacLeish lectured al fresco on the steps of Memorial Chapel...