He also informs us that this dog is depicted in the mural of the Stoa Poikile.

Fresco ( plural frescos or frescoes ) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid lime plaster.

Nevertheless Galen's pre-eminence amongst the great thinkers of the millennium is exemplified by a 16th-century mural in the refectory of the Great Lavra of Mt Athos.

In the mural it is written ; " What once was ours, will be ours once again ", and " Hold fast roto s ( Chileans ), for here come the Colorados of Bolivia ".

A particularly distinguishing characteristic of mural painting is that the architectural elements of the given space are harmoniously incorporated into the picture.

Today, the beauty of a wall mural has become much more widely available with a technique whereby a painting or photographic image is transferred to poster paper or canvas which is then pasted to a wall surface ( see wallpaper, Frescography ) to give the effect of either a hand-painted mural or realistic scene.

Tempera painting is one of the oldest known methods in mural painting.

Many people like to express their individuality by commissioning an artist to paint a mural in their home, this is not an activity exclusively for owners of large houses.

A mural artist is only limited by the fee and therefore the time spent on the painting ; dictating the level of detail ; a simple mural can be added to the smallest of walls.

On 18 December the BBC broadcast his radio play The Eye of the Beholder ( later revised as The Voice of One ) in which an avante-garde artist is commissioned to paint a church mural.

A mural by Romare Bearden in the Gateway Center subway station in Pittsburgh is worth $ 15 million, more than the cash-strapped transit agency expected, raising questions about how it should be cared for once it is removed before the station is demolished.

There is a mural dedicated to Violette Szabo in Stockwell, South London, painted in 2001: Stockwell War Memorial, Stockwell Road.

* This year is the earliest date for the oldest known painted depiction of a horse collar, on a cave mural of Dunhuang, during the Northern Wei Dynasty.

A detailed mural depicting Soho characters, including writer Dylan Thomas and jazz musician George Melly, is in Broadwick Street, at the junction with Carnaby Street.

The city is also home to the largest singly funded mural in the nation, " Fertile Ground ", by Meg Saligman.

The figure of Jane Seymour in the mural is related to Holbein's sketch and painting of her. Portrait of Edward VI of England | Edward VI as a Child, c. 1538.

Above each of the inscriptions is a mural painted by Jules Guerin graphically portraying governing principles evident in Lincoln's life.

After a debate that divided members largely along the lines of generation and gender, the Chickahominy Neighborhood Association voted unanimously yesterday not to bring a controversial Revolutionary War mural back to Hamilton Avenue School because its content is too violent.

The western wall of the Temple Mount rose up from the bottom of this valley to the height of 84 feet, where it was on a level with the area, and above this, and as a continuance of it, the wall of Solomon's cloister rose to the height of about 50 feet, " so that this section of the wall would originally present to view a stupendous mass of masonry scarcely to be surpassed by any mural masonry in the world.

According to a mural on the courthouse depicting the arrival of the Graham brothers, the town square is physically the largest of any in the country.

The ancient mural was created prior to the arrival of any European explorers in the region, and possibly before 1200 CE.

The mounting of the mural allowed Springs to inspect his railroad any time he wished.

The wall in the courtyard is an open mural space on which any " elf ", as the residents are known, can paint, draw, carve, paste, etc.

The mural, titled " America's Heart ," is a pointillist-style piece, with one brush-stroke for each victim of the attacks.

Robbins juxtaposes this final triumphant moment of the theater with images of the destruction of a mural commissioned by Nelson Rockefeller ( John Cusack ) because the artist, Diego Rivera ( Ruben Blades ), refused to remove the image of Lenin's face from the piece.

The deterioration of the mural work is due to environmental factors and the materials Siquieros used to create the piece.

At the same time, however, Spanish artist Salvador Dali had been commissioned to do a mural for the store as well and after he learned that Knapp was also hired to paint a mural, he demanded that he design the piece and Knapp paint it.

The Bergen County Museum of Art and Science became the mural's caretakers and the piece was disassembled and stored in the Carlstadt municipal garage, where it currently sits as a decision on what to do with the enormous mural has not been made.

Nahla's title of the piece, and included in Arabic across the face of the mural, is " Baghdad My Beloved ".

The art piece at this station, which called The Coin Mat, consists of a mural consisting of 160, 000 one-cent coins embedded in glass, done by Jane Lee.

The mural is estimated to weigh approximately 2, 000-3, 000 pounds, and will be removed from the building in one piece by a team of contractors.

The album's cover and single artwork were undertaken by graffiti artist Banksy, with the single featuring a spoof image of the British Royal Family, replicated as a mural on the building.

The artwork inside the church include the famous mural paintings by the Master of Taüll ( contained in the different apses and the keys of the arches ), as well as the wooden alter frontal.

Bemelmans ' Central Park, a mural on the walls of the Carlyle Hotel's Bemelmans Bar in New York City, is his only artwork on display to the public.

The station, clad in terra cotta, features one artwork, a large abstract aluminum mural by Eddy Tardif entitled Le Pélican, representing Pierre Le Moyne D ' Iberville's ship.

He viewed the artwork based on his music ( created by Advanced Diploma students ) and helped finish a mural on the B-block wall, painting " I am not what you think I am / I am made of gold.

* Topolski Century, mural artwork on South Bank, London, UK

There is an artwork called Stainless Steel Mobiles by artist Anthony Poon hanging from the ceiling on the station as well as a polymarble mural by Aw Tee Hong called Epic of Singapore.

Wallscapes can be painted directly on the wall as a mural, or printed on vinyl and securely attached to the wall in the manner of a billboard.

On its non-ecclesiastical side it gradually was extended to include, besides painted windows and mural decoration, furniture, metal and glass wares, cloth and paper wall-hangings, embroideries, jewellery, woven and knotted carpets, silk damasks, and tapestries.

The Director of the American Academy in Rome, Francis Davis Millet, directed the painted mural decorations.

He had a mural of the saint painted in his bedchamber for inspiration before and after sleep and even named his eldest son Edward.

In 1942, Charles R. Knight painted a mural incorporating a confrontation between the two dinosaurs in the Field Museum of Natural History for the National Geographic Society, establishing them as enemies in popular thought.

At the time of dedication a mural painted by native labor adorned the focal wall of the chapel.

In September 2007 a mural honoring moments from her life was painted in downtown Maysville.

An historical mural at the library was painted on canvas by Joe Taylor of nearby Crosbyton, Texas.

The mural was funded by grants from the Tennessee Arts Commission and the VEC Customershares program and painted by Bill McDonald, a local artist.

In 1993, at the request of the Dulwich Festival, artist Stan Peskett painted a mural of Blake's vision next to the Goose Green playground in East Dulwich.

Bob Montana, creator of the original Archie characters, knew the Lodges, because he had once painted a mural for them.

A mural for the new post office built in 1937 was commissioned by the WPA and painted by Hilton Leech of Bridgeport, CT to commemorate this event.

The scene described in the song was replicated as a trompe-l ' oeil mural painted on the side of a building in Standin ' on the Corner Park in Winslow.

On October 18, 2004, a fire destroyed the building on which the mural was painted.

A mural, painted by Jorge and Maria Villegas, illustrates historic scenes from the area.

The mural, which was painted by more than 20 Temple City students under the tutelage of West Los Angeles-based muralist Art Mortimer, is the first project of the city's public art advisory group formed in February.

In 2009, the Centennial Class of Exeter Union High School had a mural painted on the campus.

Current murals being painted are not affected by this ban, but no new murals can be painted unless the owner of the building can prove there was an already existing mural on the wall before 1994.

In 1983, Richard Haas painted a mural on the backs of several buildings in the business district, matching their fronts to their backs.

It was the original site of a federally commissioned Works Progress Administration ( WPA ) mural painted by Franklin artist Jean Swiggett, who started his career during the difficult years of the Great Depression.