wall-painting

English

Alternative forms

• wallpainting

Noun

wall-painting (plural wall-paintings)

1. A work of art created directly on a wall, ceiling, etc.
   • 1952, Suyeji Umehara, “The Newly Discovered Tombs with Wall Paintings of the Kao-kou-li Dynasty”, in Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America‎^[1], volume 6, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5:

     Among investigations of ancient sites made by Japanese scholars in the Korean Peninsula during the past forty yeas, there are some which have attracted the attention of scholars of the world. One of these was the excavation of the Lo-lang sites of the Han dynasty centering about Heijōᵃ (P'ing-jang); the other was the discovery of the Kao-kou-li tombs with wall paintings in the neighborhood of Heijō and in the vicinity of T'ung-kou, Chi-an shêng,ᵇ Manchuria, in the north.

   1. a mural, fresco, graffito, marouflage

Translations

work of art

• Greek: τοιχογραφία (el) f (toichografía)

  Ancient Greek: τοιχογραφία f (toikhographía)

• Sanskrit: भित्तिचित्र (bhitticitra)

Further reading

• mural on Wikipedia.Wikipedia