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wall-painting en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A work of art created directly on a wall, ceiling, etc.
   • 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. 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, volume 6, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5:
2. A work of art created directly on a wall, ceiling, etc. ▸ a mural, fresco, graffito, marouflage

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sa भित्तिचित्र (work of art) · grc τοιχογραφία (work of art) · el τοιχογραφία (work of art)