Then, advised by the Architect of the Capitol, the Joint Committee for the Library, traditionally responsible for the works of art in the building, ordered the space cleared and painted in fresco, to show `` the Peace after the Civil War '', `` the Spanish-American War '', and `` the Birth of Aviation '', to match as nearly as feasible Brumidi's technique and composition.

It could be seen that both artists used a very thick final coat of plaster, one half inch, and that both followed the traditional Italian fresco technique as described by Cennino Cennini in the 14th Century, and current in Italy to this day.

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.

The most common form of fresco was Egyptian wall paintings in tombs, usually using the à secco technique.

Leonardo, instead of using the reliable technique of fresco, had used tempera over a ground that was mainly gesso, resulting in a surface which was subject to mold and to flaking.

The buon fresco technique consists of painting in pigment mixed with water on a thin layer of wet, fresh, lime mortar or plaster.

For once, fresco proved to be a problematic technique for the English climate.

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The fresco painting technique used in Bonampak is a three step process.

To Veit is due the credit of having been the first to revive the almost forgotten technique of fresco painting.

None of the painters had mastered the technique of fresco, and their pictures had begun to peel from the walls before they were completed.

His painstaking technique made him unsuited for large-scale fresco painting.

The work took more than a year to complete and was painted on site using the traditional technique of fresco painting.

The Gambier Parry process is a development of the classical technique of fresco for painting murals, named for Thomas Gambier Parry.

True fresco is the technique of painting on fresh lime plaster whereby the pigments are fixed by the carbonatation of the lime ( calcium hydroxide ).

After studying the technique of the Italian fresco painters, Thomas Gambier-Parry developed his own spirit fresco method and executed grand-scale mural projects at Ely Cathedral, Gloucester Cathedral and the parish church at Highnam.

After eight years in Italy he finally returned to Denmark, staying briefly in Munich where he studied the technique of fresco painting, in anticipation of a commission, along with Georg Hilker, to decorate the University of Copenhagen's vestibule on Frue Plads.

The technique used is called fresco, where the paint is applied on plaster on walls and / or ceilings.

The painting technique employed was fresco, in which the paint is applied to damp plaster.

The use of watercolor paints to inpaint damages on fresco is an example of a technique utilized to achieve almost complete reversibility.

Picturesque plafonds can be executed directly on plaster ( in technique of fresco, oil, glutinous, synthetic paints, etc.

The tomb is painted with the true fresco technique and its importance lies in being " the only example of Greek painting with figured scenes dating from the Orientalizing, Archaic, or Classical periods to survive in its entirety.

Painted using the al fresco technique, the piece depicts the most important moments of Romanian history, starting with the conquest of Dacia by Roman emperor Trajan and ending with the realization of Greater Romania in 1918.

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.

This has led many archaeologists to believe that the fresco of the saffron / crocus gatherers is a coming of age fresco dealing with female pubescence.

The interior has a large fresco cycle.

The fresco cycle details the life of the Virgin Mary and has been acknowledged by many to be one of the most important fresco cycles in the world.

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.

The left aisle has a fresco by Piero della Francesca portraying the Madeleine.

The interior has a single nave: the main attraction is the History of the True Cross fresco ( 1453 – 1464 ) cycle by Piero della Francesca in the Bacci Chapel.

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

In addition, the Castelfranco Altarpiece in his home-town has rarely, if ever, been doubted, nor have the wrecked fresco fragments from the German warehouse.

The notorious fake antique fresco of Jupiter and Ganymede, tailored to deceive Winckelmann has been attributed to Mengs or Giovanni CasanovaWith the aid of his new friend, the painter Anton Raphael Mengs ( 1728 – 79 ), with whom he first lived in Rome, Winckelmann devoted himself to the study of Roman antiquities and gradually acquired an unrivalled knowledge of ancient art.

The notorious fake antique fresco of Jupiter and Ganymede, tailored to deceive Johan Joachim Winckelmann | Winckelmann has been attributed to Mengs or Giovanni Casanova

He also executed a single fresco in the Sistine Chapel in Rome, the Testament and Death of Moses, although most of it has been attributed to Bartolomeo della Gatta ; another, the Moses Leaving to Egypt, once ascribed to Signorelli, is now recognized as the work of Perugino and other assistants.

The first chapel on the right, the Chapel of the Annunciation, has a fresco of the Annunciation attributed to Melozzo da Forlì.

The second niche has a 15th-century fresco of the Tuscan school, depicting the Coronation of the Virgin.

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.

A fresco in the 13th-century Plaincourault Abbey in France depicts Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, flanking a Tree of Knowledge that has the appearance of a gigantic Amanita muscaria, a poisonous and psychoactive mushroom.

The most famous fresco, of Christ in Majesty in the Apse of Sant Climent de Taüll main apse of the church, has been moved to the Museu Nacional d ' Art de Catalunya in Barcelona.

It has a noteworthy loggia and a fresco attributed to Jacopo da Bassano.

The fresco in the Catacombs of Priscilla has been claimed as one example of a conspiracy to deny women ’ s involvement in the Eucharist.

The clerestory has small windows, inserted when the nave was vaulted, along with lancet windows in the north aisle, the aisle windows were subsequently blocked for the painting of the fresco cycle, making the interior very dark.