* Structures ; Ruins of palaces, palatial villas, houses, built dome-or cist-graves and fortifications ( Aegean islands, Greek mainland and northwestern Anatolia ), but not distinct temples ; small shrines, however, and temene ( religious enclosures, remains of one of which were probably found at Petsofa near Palaikastro by J. L. Myres in 1904 ) are represented on intaglios and frescoes.

Furthermore, frescoes and murals dealing with death had a long tradition and were widespread, e. g. the legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead: on a ride or hunt, three young gentlemen meet three cadavers ( sometimes described as their ancestors ) who warn them, Quod fuimus, estis ; quod sumus, vos eritis ( What we were, you are ; what we are, you will be ).

Buon frescoes are difficult to create because of the deadline associated with the drying plaster.

The earliest known examples frescoes done in the Buon Fresco method date at around 1500 BC and are to be found on the island of Crete in Greece.

While some similar frescoes have been found in other locations around the Mediterranean basin, particularly in Egypt and Morocco, their origins are subject to speculation.

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.

They are considered a masterpiece of ancient frescoes.

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.

Noted archaeological remains found in Akrotiri are wall paintings or frescoes, which have kept their original colour well, as they were preserved under many metres of volcanic ash.

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.

As a result his frescoes are even more convincingly lifelike than those of his trecento predecessor.

The frescoes, done too soon and too fast, began to fade at once and now are barely decipherable.

* 1259 – The famous frescoes of the Boyana Church in Bulgaria are completed ( the church and its murals are now a UNESCO World Heritage Site ).

The Etruscan musical instruments seen in frescoes and bas-reliefs are different types of pipes, such as the plagiaulos ( the pipes of Pan or Syrinx ), the alabaster pipe and the famous double pipes, accompanied on percussion instruments such as the tintinnabulum, tympanum and crotales, and later by stringed instruments like the lyre and kithara.

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.

* The famous frescoes of the Boyana Church in Bulgaria are completed ( the church and its murals are now a UNESCO World Heritage Site ).

Inside are two outstanding bird's-eye-view frescoes of the city ( 1525 ) attributed to the painter Bernardino Lanzani.

The most severe damage was to the Niobe room, ( this room was relevant because it had many works of art that displayed those that are handicap ) and classical sculptures and neoclassical interior of which have been restored, although its frescoes were damaged beyond repair.

The floor of the church is made of opus sectile, a mosaic of coloured marble, and there are some remains of frescoes on the walls.

* The Palazzo della Ragione, with its great hall on the upper floor, is reputed to have the largest roof unsupported by columns in Europe ; the hall is nearly rectangular, its length, its breadth, and its height ; the walls are covered with allegorical frescoes ; the building stands upon arches, and the upper storey is surrounded by an open loggia, not unlike that which surrounds the basilica of Vicenza.

* Not far from the Gattamelata statue are the St. George Oratory ( 13th century ), with frescoes by Altichiero, and the Scuola di S. Antonio ( 16th century ), with frescoes by Tiziano ( Titian ).

Eisenstein admired these artists as much as Mexican culture in general, and they inspired Eisenstein to call his films " moving frescoes ".

It has frescoes inspired by Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata

The subject of Niobe and the destruction of the Niobids was part of the repertory of Attic vase-painters and inspired sculpture groups and wall frescoes as well as relief carvings on Roman sarcophagi.

Abstract Expressionism can be characterized by two major elements: the large size of the canvases used ( partially inspired by Mexican frescoes and the works they made for the WPA in the 1930s ), and the strong and unusual use of brushstrokes and experimental paint application with a new understanding of process.

They consist of six frescoes, representing the “ Tower of Babel ,” “ Homer and the Greeks ,” the “ Destruction of Jerusalem ,” the “ Battle of the Huns ” ( – a painting that inspired the 1857 symphonic poem Hunnenschlacht by Liszt ), the “ Crusaders at the gates of Jerusalem ,” and the “ Age of the Reformation .”

For instance, his masterpiece, the Assumption of the Virgin, around the cupola of the church of the Madonna del Fuoco at Forlì, is inspired by the Correggio's frescoes in the cupola of the Cathedral of Parma and by the Melozzo's perspective from down to up.

Inside you can find five frescoes by the Aachen artist Alfre Rethel which show legendary scenes from the life of Charlemagne, as well as Charlemagne's signature.

It has with a Baroque portal ( 1667 ), a noteworthy bell tower, presbytery frescoes portraying the Histories of St. Peter and Virgin by Jacopo da Montagnana ( 1495 ) and Palma the Younger's altarpiece depicting Christ Crucifixed Between St. Augustine and St. Jerome.

He made a modest living by " produc paintings in the various genres at whatever price his customers chose to pay him ", and by such work as the restoration of the frescoes at the Galerie François I at Fontainebleau in 1731.

Roman frescoes were done by the artist painting the artwork on the still damp plaster of the wall, so that the painting is part of the wall, actually colored plaster.

The museum consequently returned in 2009 five Egyptian fragments of frescoes ( 30 cm x 15 cm each ) whose existence of the tomb of origin had only been brought to the authorities attention in 2008, eight to five years after their good-faith acquisition by the museum from two private collections and after the necessary respect of the procedure of déclassement from French public collections before the Commission scientifique nationale des collections des musées de France.

Some of the interior frescoes were done by Vincenzo Tamagni in the early sixteenth century.

It houses precious frescoes by Correggio, in the so-called Camera di San Paolo ( 1519 – 1520 ), and Alessandro Araldi.

The Oratory of the Concezione houses frescoes by Michelangelo Anselmi and Francesco Rondani.

The frescoes in the nave ( by Giovanni Maria Conti della Camera, Francesco Reti and Antonio Lombardi ) date to this period.

The cupola is decorated with frescoes by Pier Antonio Bernabei and his pupils.

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 ").

The bronze and silver doors of the Cassinese Basilica that Desiderius erected remain, and in the Church of Sant ' Angelo in Formis, near Capua, some of the frescoes executed by his orders may still be seen.

In 1424 the " duo preciso e noto " (" well and known duo ") of Masaccio and Masolino was commissioned by the powerful and rich Felice Brancacci to execute a cycle of frescoes for the Brancacci Chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence.

Another episode of Leo's life celebrated by the Urbinate in his series of frescoes for the Incendio di Borgo is the burning of the Anglo-Saxon district of Rome ( the " Borgo "), which, according to the legend, was stopped by Leo simply making the sign of the cross.

The dome that covers this area is decorated with frescoes by the Cordovan artist Antonio Palomino ( 18th century ) representing the triumph of the Church Militant, the faith, and religious life.

The interior, with a nave and two aisles, houses a wide cycle of 18th century frescoes, some altarpieces by Gandolfino d ' Asti and precious silver artworks from the 15th-16th centuries.

* Castello del Buonconsiglio, which includes a museum and the notable Torre dell ' Aquila, with a cycle of fine Gothic frescoes depicting the months, commissioned by the prince-bishop Georg von Lichtenstein.

Michelangelo was also commissioned by the Pope to paint the ' Crucifixion of St. Peter ' and the ' Conversion of St. Paul ' ( 1542 – 50 ), his last frescoes, in the Pauline Chapel of the Vatican.