* The Last Supper, Leonardo Da Vinci, Milan ( technically a tempera on plaster and stone, not a true fresco )

Despite his low opinion of painting, Michelangelo also created two of the most influential works in fresco in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.

The decoration is mainly from the 18th century Baroque restoration, but recently a Byzantine-style fourteenth-century fresco portraying the Last Judgment has been discovered.

Leonardo da Vinci painted The Last Supper on a dry wall rather than on wet plaster, so it is not a true fresco.

Traditionally, an Orthodox church will have a fresco or mosaic of the Last Judgment on the back ( western ) wall, ( see the 12th-century mosaic pictured at the top of this page ) so that the faithful, as they leave the services, are reminded that they will be judged by what they do during this earthly life.

Included in their passages are a 2nd-century fresco of the Last Supper and other valuable artifacts.

In 1447 he worked in the refectory of Sant ' Apollonia in Florence, painting, in the lower part, Last Supper fresco, accompanied by other scenes portraying the Deposition, Resurrection, and Crucifixion, which are now damaged.

The Last Judgment, a fresco in the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo ( 1534 – 41 ), came under persistent attack in the Counter-Reformation for, among other things, nudity ( later painted over for several centuries ), not showing Christ seated or bearded, and including the pagan figure of Charon.

* The Last Judgement ( 1295 – 1298 ), part of fresco cycle at Santa Cecilia in Trastevere in Rome.

Lorenzetti's fresco cycle begins with The Entry into Jerusalem, the Last Supper, the Washing of the Feet, the Capture of Christ, the Flagellation and the Way to Calvary.

Although none of his known work has survived, he is widely assumed to be the painter of a most influential fresco cycle in the Camposanto in Pisa, featuring the The Three Dead and the Three Living, the Triumph of Death, the Last Judgement, the Hell, and the Thebais ( several episodes from the lives of the Holy Fathers in the Desert ).

The High Renaissance period is traditionally taken to begin in the 1490s, with Leonardo's fresco of the Last Supper in Milan and the death of Lorenzo de ' Medici in Florence, and to have ended in 1527 with the sacking of Rome by the troops of Charles V. This term was first used in German ( Hochrenaissance ) in the early nineteenth century, and has its origins in the " High Style " of painting and sculpture described by Johann Joachim Winckelmann.

The apse houses the splendid fresco Last Judgement, by the Bolognese artist Camillo Procaccini.

The ceiling's various painted elements form part of a larger scheme of decoration within the Chapel, which includes the large fresco The Last Judgment on the sanctuary wall, also by Michelangelo, wall paintings by several leading painters of the late 15th century including Sandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio and Pietro Perugino, and a set of large tapestries by Raphael, the whole illustrating much of the doctrine of the Catholic Church.

The terrors and force of his pencil were not, however, rendered attractive by any charm of colour ; his paintings remained unpurchased, and Sigalon found himself forced to get a humble living at times by painting portraits, when Thiers, then minister of the interior, recalled him to Paris and entrusted him with the task of copying the Sistine fresco of the Last Judgment for a hall in the Palace of the Fine Arts.

The large fresco of the Last Judgment, over the high altar in that church, measures 62 ft. in height by 38 ft. in width.

On the rear wall of the nave, beneath the Last Judgement is a fresco of the Martyrdom of St Sebastian painted by Benozzo Gozzoli in 1465.

Jesus Christ and the Beloved Disciple ( detail from 14th century fresco of the Last Supper ), Ubisi, Georgia ( country ) | Georgia.

She used a 3D computer-generated model to show that the lines on the Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan match the perspective lines of Leonardo's fresco painting of the Last Supper.

A fresco with her portrait faces da Vinci's Last Supper in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan.

* The Secret Supper ( 2006 ) by Javier Sierra explores the symbology of Leonardo's Last Supper, and its threat to the Catholic Church, as he is painting the fresco in 15th century Milan.

In 1856, Janmot obtained a commission to paint a fresco ( since destroyed ) representing the Last Supper for the church of St. Polycarp.

The counter-façade is occupied by a giant fresco depicting the Universal Judgment by Ferraù Faenzone, called " Il Faenzone ", a work commissioned by Cardinal Angelo Cesi, in which the influence, if nowhere near the genius, of Michelangelo is easily discerned.

To be sure of matching color as well as form, pieces of cartoon were traced on the roughcast, and large samples painted in fresco, then left two months to dry out to their final key.

Together with Annibale and Ludovico he worked in Bologna on the fresco cycles in Palazzo Fava ( Histories of Jason and Medea, 1584 ) and Palazzo Magnani ( Histories of Romulus, 1590 – 1592 ).

The most detailed illustrations are to be found on the ' ship fresco ' at Akrotiri on the island of Thera ( Santorini ) preserved by the ash fall from the volcanic eruption which destroyed the town there.

A vestige of that appears in a portrait of Alexander the Great in a fresco from Pompeii dated to the first century BC, which shows the image of the head of a woman on his armor that resembles the Gorgon.

File: Adam study-Michelangelo. jpg | Michelangelo-Studies of a reclining male nude: Adam in the fresco ' The Creation of Man ' on the vault of the Sistine Chapel ( c. 1511 )

Fresco may thus be contrasted with secco mural painting techniques, on plasters of lime, earth, or gypsum, or applied to supplement painting in fresco.

Buon fresco technique consists of painting in pigment mixed with water on a thin layer of wet, fresh ( hence the name ) lime mortar or plaster, for which the Italian word for plaster, intonaco, is used.

It is important to distinguish between a secco work done on top of buon fresco, which according to most authorities was in fact standard from the Middle Ages onwards, and work done entirely a secco on a blank wall.

Generally, buon fresco works are more durable than any a secco work added on top of them, because a secco work lasts better with a roughened plaster surface, whilst true fresco should have a smooth one.

In most early examples this work has now entirely vanished, but a whole fresco done a secco on a surface roughened to give a key for the paint may survive very well, although damp is more threatening to it than to buon fresco.

The following year he was commissioned a fresco of the Universal Judgement for the Ospedale di Santa Maria Nuova, completed by Albertinelli and Giuliano Bugiardini when Baccio became a Dominican friar on July 26, 1500.

( From a panoramic fresco on the upper level of the main hall of the Achilleion ( Corfu ) | Achilleion )

The term covers large paintings in oil on canvas or fresco produced between the Renaissance and the late 19th century, after which the term is generally not used even for the many works that still meet the basic definition.

Icons may also be cast in metal, carved in stone, embroidered on cloth, painted on wood, done in mosaic or fresco work, printed on paper or metal, etc.

A fresco painting, from the Italian word affresco which derives from the adjective fresco (" fresh "), describes a method in which the paint is applied on plaster on walls or ceilings.

Some are simple caves with a single altar and maybe a fresco, often located on the opposite side of the ravine.

Each lararium features a panel fresco containing the same theme: two peripheral figures ( Lares ) attend on a central figure ( family genius ) or two figures ( genius and Juno ) who may or may not be at an altar.

It has also a marble high altar by Andrea della Robbia including a pre-existing fresco by Parri di Spinello ( 1428 – 1431 ).

The chapels contain in order: a baptismal font, a fresco, an altar dedicated to Our Lady of the Fountain ( protectress of Canosa ) whose icon came after the First Crusade, in the adjacent

The interior is a large hall dominated by the seventeen-panel fresco cycle on The Life of St Augustine around the high altar, painted by Benozzo Gozzoli between 1463 and 1467.

It has been much reworked over the centuries ; over the main altar a fresco of the Umbrian school can be seen, depicting the Madonna and Child, attributed to Bartolomeo da Miranda.

The Maestà was often executed in fresco technique directly on plastered walls or as paintings on gessoed wooden altar panels.

In the palace interior only two original pieces remain-a fresco on the ceiling of the palace's 18th century chapel and an altar.

In 1537-1539 Il Sodoma painted a fresco over the altar, now housed in the Town museum in the Palazzo Pubblico.

Also present is the fresco functioning as an altar-pieces of the high altar and representing a Glory of Angels-Musicians, attributed to Cerano.

Additional restorations ( and a fresco over the altar ) were made in 1475.

Coulon assisted Leon Pomarede in painting a copy of Raphael ’ s Transfiguration above the altar of St. Patrick ’ s Church and helped fresco the ceiling of the criminal court in the Cabildo.