Underneath the choir of the Duomo, a narthex containing important late-13th century frescoes ( probably about 1280 ) was found and excavated in 1999-2003.

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.

After centuries, these giornate ( originally, nearly invisible ) have sometimes become visible, and in many large-scale frescoes, these divisions may be seen from the ground.

The frescoes in Dogra / Pahari style paintings exist in their unique form at Sheesh Mahal of Ramnagar ( 105 km from Jammu and 35 km west of Udhampur ).

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.

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.

The conversions from nomadism and paganism to settlement and Christianity also opened up new arenas of artistic expression, such as architecture ( especially churches ) and its accompanying decorative arts ( such as frescoes ).

The dress of religious workers in ancient times may be demonstrated in frescoes and artifacts from the cultures.

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

But Masaccio left the frescoes unfinished in 1426 in order to respond to other commissions, probably coming from the same patron.

Only four frescoes undoubtedly from Masaccio's hand still exist today, although many other works have been at least partially attributed to him.

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.

While Evans based the recreations on archaeological evidence, some of the best-known frescoes from the throne room were almost complete inventions of the Gilliérons, according to his critics.

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.

He turned his fluid line to designs ranging from intricate jewellery to monumental frescoes.

* 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 ).

In 1471 he received the duchy of Ferrara as papal fief from Pope Paul II, for which occasion splendid frescoes were executed at Palazzo Schifanoia.

On the frescoes of this monastery, there are some 1, 000 portraits depicting the most important episodes from the New Testament.

The main altar and the interior frescoes were cleaned, and missing pieces of moldings, reliefs, and other adornments were reconstructed from photographic archives or surrounding fragments.

The interior, with a nave and four aisles, contains paintings dating to the 11th century and frescoes from the 14th.

Though the interior has suffered changes, there is a fine relief by Matteo da Campione representing a royal Lombard coronation, and some 15th-century frescoes with scenes from the life of Theodelinda.

** Romanesque frescoes of Saint Thomas Becket from the 12th century

** Gothic frescoes from the 13th century

However, minor improvements have been effected after its first erection during Rama I's reign ; wood-work of the temple was replaced by King Rama III and King Chulalongkorn ; during King Mongkut's reign, the elegant doors and windows and the copper plates on the floor were additions, Rama III refurbished the wall painting ( indicative of the universe according to Buddhist cosmology ) and several frescoes that display the various stages of the Buddha's life ; three chambers were added on the western side by King Mongkut ; in the chamber known as ' Phra Kromanusorn ' at the northern end, images of Buddha have been installed in honour of the kings of Ayudya ; and in the 19th century, In Khong, a famous painter executed the wall murals.

Raphael was an artist revered by the conservative members of the Académie des Beaux-Arts and his paintings were part of the teaching programme at the École des Beaux-Arts, where copies of fifty-two images from his most celebrated frescoes were permanently on display.

Luckily, frescoes he framed with glue but was unable to remove are still on display in caves today.

A close examination of the frescoes of the lunettes convinced the restorers that Michelangelo worked exclusively in " buon fresco "; that is, the artist worked only on freshly laid plaster and each section of work was completed while the plaster was still in its fresh state.

Painted by Tintoretto from 1578 onwards, the frescoes of mythological subjects and of the cities and regions under Venetian dominion were designed to show a close link between Venice ’ s foundation, its independence, and the historical mission of the Venetian aristocracy.

It is speculated by the excavator of Tell Dab ' a, the Austrian archaeologist Bietak, that there was close contact with the rulers of Avaris, and the large building representing the frescoes allowed the Minoans to have a ritual life in Egypt.

The interior of the Sistine Chapel showing the ceiling in relation to the other frescoes.

Image: Sistine chapel. jpg | The interior of the Sistine Chapel in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, showing the ceiling in relation to the other frescoes.

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

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.

According to Vasari, all Florentine painters studied his frescoes extensively in order to " learn the precepts and rules for painting well ".

When he was seventeen a pupil of Correggio, named Daniele da Parma, engaged him to assist in painting a series of frescoes in a chapel at Vitto near Sora, on the borders of the Abruzzi ( not corroborated by Freedburg ).

In 1821 Stefano Barezzi, an expert in removing whole frescoes from their walls intact, was called in to remove the painting to a safer location ; he badly damaged the center section before realizing that Leonardo's work was not a fresco.

The most famous of these is the Villa d ' Este, a World Heritage Site, whose construction was started in 1549 by Pirro Ligorio for Cardinal Ippolito II d ' Este and which was richly decorated with an ambitious program of frescoes by famous painters of late Roman Mannerism, such Livio Agresti ( a member of the " Forlì painting school ") or the Zuccari brothers.

It has an array of frescoes on the walls and on the pillars, most of them retaining a lot of colour, and the inside of the dome is covered by a painting of Christ enthroned.

Annibale meanwhile developed hundreds of preparatory sketches for the major work, wherein he led a team painting frescoes on the ceiling of the grand salon with the secular quadri riportati of The Loves of the Gods, or as the biographer Giovanni Bellori described it, Human Love governed by Celestial Love.

Strong influences on the film were Bibi Andersson ( with whom Bergman was in a relationship 1955 – 59 ) who played the juggler's wife Mia, Picasso's picture of the two acrobats, Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, Strindberg's Folk Sagas and To Denmark, the frescoes at Haskeborga church and a painting by Albertus Pictor in Täby kyrka.

The interior has notable frescoes and a painting by Giovanni Lanfranco.

The palatine chapel, entitled to Saint Bartholomew houses canvases of the Venetian school of painting and traces of Renaissance frescoes.

The frescoes on the walls of the Room of the Nine ( Sala dei Nove ) or Room of Peace ( Sala della Pace ) in the Palazzo Pubblico of Siena are one of the masterworks of early renaissance secular painting.

* Titian ( Italian, c. 1477 – 1576 ) Important Renaissance exponent of colour painting in oils and frescoes

Wall painting flourished in all parts of Croatia, from the illusionist frescoes in the Church of Holy Mary in Samobor, St, Catherine in Zagreb to the Jesuit church in Dubrovnik.

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 .”

According to many leading experts, the world famous frescoes in the Boyana Church played an important role in the development of mediaeval Bulgarian and European painting.

At the outset an effort was made to recover fresco painting and monumental art, and Schnorr found opportunity of proving his powers, when commissioned to decorate with frescoes, illustrative of Ariosto, the entrance hail of the Villa Massimo, near the Lateran.

In the execution of large frescoes, pupils and assistants had a large share in the work, either in enlarging the master's sketch to the full-sized cartoon, in transferring the cartoon to the wall, or in painting backgrounds or accessories.

By late 1616, Domenichino had designed the coffered ceiling with The Assumption of the Virgin in Santa Maria in Trastevere ; and he had begun a cycle of ten frescoes depicting the Life of Apollo in a garden pavilion of the Villa Aldobrandini ( Belvedere ) in Frascati, where he was assisted by Giovanni Battista Viola, a Bolognese artist who, like Domenichino himself, was a pioneer in the development of classicistic landscape painting.

In the early part of his life he worked in Florence as an assistant to his master Jacopo while painting frescoes in the church of the Carmine and in Santa Maria Novella.

Between 1360 and 1384 he was occupied in painting many frescoes in and near Arezzo, almost all of which have now perished.

In 1391-1392 Spinello was painting six frescoes, which still remain on the south wall of the Pisan Campo Santo, representing miracles of St. Potitus and St. Ephesus.