Cartoons were typically used in the production of frescoes, to accurately link the component parts of the composition when painted on damp plaster over a series of days ( giornate ).

Later that year, he returned to Zaragoza and painted parts of the cupolas of the Basilica of the Pillar ( including Adoration of the Name of God ), a cycle of frescoes in the monastic church of the Charterhouse of Aula Dei, and the frescoes of the Sobradiel Palace.

The frescoes on the ceilings and walls of the Ajanta Caves were painted between c. 200 BC and 600 and are the oldest known frescoes in India.

In 1513 he went to Rome, where he painted a Peter and Paul, now in the Pinacoteca Vaticana, while from the following years are the St. Mark Evangelist of Palazzo Pitti in Florence and the frescoes in the Dominican convent of Pian di Mugnone.

He painted miniatures and altarpieces, landscapes and frescoes, historical and religious scenes, and subjects from the Bible, Greek mythology and Shakespeare.

Shortly afterwards he painted three frescoes with scenes from the life of Saint Francis above the left door of the Santa Trinita church.

He also painted some frescoes in the Prato Cathedral and Bologna.

Three frescoes in the Sala Regia Palace of the Vatican depicting the events were painted by Giorgio Vasari, and a commemorative medal was issued with Gregory's portrait and on the obverse a chastising angel, sword in hand and the legend (" Massacre of the Huguenots ").

In another house are two antelopes, painted with a kind of confident, flowing, decorative, calligraphic line, the famous fresco of a fisherman with his double strings of fish strung by their gills, and the flotilla of pleasure boats, accompanied by leaping dolphins, where ladies take their ease in the shade of light canopies, among other frescoes.

The frescoes that are painted on the interiors of the Palace of the Popes and the churches of Avignon were created primarily by artists from Siena.

For Agostino Chigi, the hugely rich banker and Papal Treasurer, he painted the Galatea and designed further decorative frescoes for his Villa Farnesina, and painted two chapels in the churches of Santa Maria della Pace and Santa Maria del Popolo.

His best frescoes were a historical series in quadro reportati painted on the walls and ceiling of Villa Farnese at Caprarola, built for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, for which Zuccari also designed a great quantity of rich decorations in stucco relief after the style of Giulio Romano and other pupils of Raphael.

Most of these monuments have walls painted with frescoes.

The history of the queen and her connection with the famous Iron Crown of Lombardy are narrated in the frescoes painted in the Theodelinda Chapel in the Cathedral of Monza, work by Ambrogio and Gregorio Zavattari ( 1444 ).

This means that Michelangelo painted well over of frescoes.

The cupola contains frescoes painted in 1966 by the 20th-century artist Raúl Soldi during renovation work.

File: La cúpula. jpg | Allegorical ceiling frescoes painted by Raúl Soldi

Together with the painted Etruscan tombs, the Lucanian tombs and the Tomb of the Diver in Paestum, the frescoes from Pompeii and Herculaneum and the Greek vases, they are the best preserved paintings from ancient times and are renowned for their remarkable naturalism.

For the Paris World Fair in 1900, Gallen-Kallela painted frescoes for the Finnish Pavilion.

Between 1901 and 1903 he painted the frescoes for the Jusélius Mausoleum in Pori, memorializing the 11-year-old daughter of the industrialist F. A.

The loggias in Saint Petersburg were adorned with copies of Vatican frescoes painted by Cristopher Unterberger and his workshop in the 1780s.

It was planned by Juan de Herrera, who also designed the library ’ s shelves ; the frescoes on the vaulted ceilings were painted by Pellegrino Tibaldi.

The Qianlong Emperor in ceremonial armor on horseback, painted by Giuseppe Castiglione ( 1688 – 1766 ) | Giuseppe Castiglione, dated 1739 or 1758.

The cult center of Mycenea dated from the 13th century BC, contained numerous big idols with faces painted in a terrifying mask-like manner, and a fresco represented a priestess or goddess with ears of corn in her hand.

* The oldest known painted depiction of a wheelbarrow is found in a Chinese tomb of Chengde, Sichuan province, dated to this year.

The leaves are housed in a case dated to the Edo period, with a silk frontispiece painted by Tosa Mitsuoki, dated to around 1690.

Exceptionally for his time, van Eyck often signed and dated his frames, then considered an integral part of the work ( the two were often painted together, and while the frames were constructed by a body of craftsmen separate to the master's workshop, their work was often considered as equal in skill to that of the painters ).

The Spring, although dated 1856, was painted in 1821, except for the head and the extremities ; those who knew the work in its incomplete state professed that the after-painting, necessary to fuse new and old, lacked the vigour and precision of touch that distinguished the original execution of the torso.

Image: Buddhist paintings Yungang. jpg | Northern Wei wall murals and painted figurines from the Yungang Grottoes, dated 5th to 6th centuries.

* Henry VIII's writing desk, dated 1525, made from walnut and oak, lined with leather and painted and gilded with the king's coat of arms

In a photo dated 2009, the painted inscription reads: " 364. 4 SMOOTS + 1 EAR "

The painted tomb mural of a man pushing a wheelbarrow was found in a tomb at Chengdu, Sichuan province, dated precisely to 118 AD.

* Wadi Hammamat in Qift, many carvings and inscriptions dating from before the earliest Egyptian Dynasties to the modern era, including the only painted petroglyph known from the Eastern Desert and drawings of Egyptian reed boats dated to 4000 BCE

Representation of temperance ( painted wood sculpture, dated 1683, which covers the shrine of the baptismal church Breton Commana in France ).

It is painted on a silk screen with an oath and is dated to 1395.

Gwen John's last dated work is a drawing of 20 March 1933, and no evidence suggests that she drew or painted during the remainder of her life.

The Ippen Hijiri-e ( 一遍聖絵 ) was edited by Ippen's disciple Shōkai ( 聖戒 ) and, according to an inscription dated 1299, was painted by the artist En ' i ( 円伊 ) ( Kankikō-ji 歓喜光寺, Kyoto, and Tokyo National Museum ).

A group of Knights of St. John, at Utrecht, supposed to have been painted about 1541 ; a picture of two pilgrims at the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, dated 1544 ; together with the portrait of an unknown woman, in the Lille gallery, were probably among his earliest works although their authenticity has not been proved.

Concurrently he painted his first, and most celebrated, altarpiece, The Last Communion of St. Jerome for the church of San Girolamo della Carità ( signed and dated, 1614 ).

The earliest dated paubha discovered so far is Vasudhara Mandala which was painted in 1365 AD ( Nepal Sambat 485 ).

This miniature portrait called A female Red Indian of Newfoundland and dated 1841 by some sources, may have been painted by naturalist Philip Henry Gosse and is most likely a later copy of Portrait of Demasduit by Hamilton ( above )

Another famous engraving, the Judgement of Paris, dated 1515 or 1516, after Raphael, became the composition source for Édouard Manet when he painted the The Luncheon on the Grass.

) Indeed a musical portrait of the cello-playing Frederick, Prince of Wales ( son of George II ) and his sisters, part of the National Portrait Gallery collection in London, painted oil on canvas by Philip Mercier and dated 1733, uses the house as its plein-air backdrop.

Mortaria dated around 170-180 AD with painted inscriptions have been found in Carlbury Vale west, and they could be associated with Piercebridge Roman Fort.

According to a letter dated October 17, 1788, ' The workmen now employed in digging the foundations of some religious houses which stood upon St. James ' Green, where the great annual fair of that name is now held in the neighbourhood of this town, have dug up two sone coffins of which the bones were entire, several pieces of painted glass, a silver coin of Robert II, and other antique relics '.