He also informs us that this dog is depicted in the mural of the Stoa Poikile.

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

Nevertheless Galen's pre-eminence amongst the great thinkers of the millennium is exemplified by a 16th-century mural in the refectory of the Great Lavra of Mt Athos.

In the mural it is written ; " What once was ours, will be ours once again ", and " Hold fast roto s ( Chileans ), for here come the Colorados of Bolivia ".

A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other large permanent surface.

A particularly distinguishing characteristic of mural painting is that the architectural elements of the given space are harmoniously incorporated into the picture.

Today, the beauty of a wall mural has become much more widely available with a technique whereby a painting or photographic image is transferred to poster paper or canvas which is then pasted to a wall surface ( see wallpaper, Frescography ) to give the effect of either a hand-painted mural or realistic scene.

Tempera painting is one of the oldest known methods in mural painting.

Many people like to express their individuality by commissioning an artist to paint a mural in their home, this is not an activity exclusively for owners of large houses.

A mural artist is only limited by the fee and therefore the time spent on the painting ; dictating the level of detail ; a simple mural can be added to the smallest of walls.

On 18 December the BBC broadcast his radio play The Eye of the Beholder ( later revised as The Voice of One ) in which an avante-garde artist is commissioned to paint a church mural.

A mural by Romare Bearden in the Gateway Center subway station in Pittsburgh is worth $ 15 million, more than the cash-strapped transit agency expected, raising questions about how it should be cared for once it is removed before the station is demolished.

There is a mural dedicated to Violette Szabo in Stockwell, South London, painted in 2001: Stockwell War Memorial, Stockwell Road.

* This year is the earliest date for the oldest known painted depiction of a horse collar, on a cave mural of Dunhuang, during the Northern Wei Dynasty.

A detailed mural depicting Soho characters, including writer Dylan Thomas and jazz musician George Melly, is in Broadwick Street, at the junction with Carnaby Street.

The city is also home to the largest singly funded mural in the nation, " Fertile Ground ", by Meg Saligman.

The figure of Jane Seymour in the mural is related to Holbein's sketch and painting of her. Portrait of Edward VI of England | Edward VI as a Child, c. 1538.

Above each of the inscriptions is a mural painted by Jules Guerin graphically portraying governing principles evident in Lincoln's life.

After a debate that divided members largely along the lines of generation and gender, the Chickahominy Neighborhood Association voted unanimously yesterday not to bring a controversial Revolutionary War mural back to Hamilton Avenue School because its content is too violent.

There is a mural Bayeu attributed to the representation of the crucifixion of the Holy Child of La Guardia in Toledo cathedral.

The mural shows Llywelyn and his men, a scene depicting the fighting and a representation of Builth Castle, where Llywelyn was turned away when trying to flee from the English.

Extending the full width of the east wall over the staircase is the great mural painting Westward, an idealized representation of the coming of the people who made Iowa.

Glass mural with a traditional representation of Kundalpur in a Jain Temple Katni

It would cost the agency more than $ 100, 000 a year to insure the 60-foot-by-13-foot tile mural, McNeil said.

Just prior to the first anniversary of the attacks, he paid US $ 100, 000 for his painting to be transformed into a large mural.

The Silver Spring station is also home to Penguin Rush Hour, a 100 x 8 foot mural painted by Sally Callmer, depicting penguins as Metro customers during rush hour.

In March 2011, almost 100 years to the day after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, Maine's Republican Governor Paul LePage, who was inaugurated in January of the same year, has had a three year old 36 foot-wide mural with scenes of Maine workers on the Department of Labor's building in Augusta removed and brought to a secret location.

Winner of the double painting prize 1969, won the 100 ' mural prize at The Royal College of Art, London.

In the palazzo is a vast mural that Giorgio Vasari completed in a mere 100 days ( therefore called Sala dei Cento Giorni ).

His wood engravings also appear on many of his stamps, and at a very different scale in a 100 metre-long mural, his most widely seen public work.

An Egypt ian burial chamber mural, approximately 4000 years old, showing wrestler s in action.

John Flamsteed, from measurements made in 1689 and succeeding years with his mural quadrant, similarly concluded that the declination of the Pole Star was 40 ″ less in July than in September.

It was the original site of a federally commissioned Works Progress Administration ( WPA ) mural painted by Franklin artist Jean Swiggett, who started his career during the difficult years of the Great Depression.

After the move, Bill Bemis retouched his work, so, the fox hunt mural is as bright and colorful today as it was 60 years ago.

The post office's most interesting feature is a mural installed in 1938 by the noted artist Jared Blanford French ( 1905 – 1988 ) entitled " Mealtime, The Early Coal Miners ," one of more than 1, 200 works of art commissioned by the U. S. Treasury between the years 1934 and 1943 through a program intended to embellish Federal buildings and encourage the arts during the Great Depression.

" Completed in 1971 after years of extension and delay, the mural broke from some previous stylistic mandates, if only by its complex message.

Other festivities held for the anniversary year included publication of a commemorative book on 125 years of student life, and, in partnership with the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program Mural Arts Program, creation of a mural in West Philadelphia highlighting advances in women's education.

The Dwight Gooden mural was a part of the NYC landscape for over ten years.

The " St Ann's Snail " mural on the end wall of a house in Tottenham, a local landmark facing Seven Sisters Road for over 30 years.

The mural took Delaroche three and a half years to complete, and it still stands as a powerful expression of the Beaux-Arts collaborative ideal.

Legions of students over the years, bemoaning the lack of swimming facilities, have sarcastically referred to the mural as " the Science swimming pool ", perpetuating the idea – perhaps apocryphal – that a choice was made to fund a mural rather than a pool in the new building ; but the mural continues to epitomize the special nature of the Bronx High School of Science.

Two years later a mosaic mural perpetuating many great names of VFL football was installed on the grandstand facade above the members ' entrance.

For many years, even after the plans had been abandoned, a retaining wall on the site featured a mural reading " Future Home of WXMT-30 ".

Prominent in the center of the college, overlooking the fountain, is a mural commissioned by the Multicultural Advisory Board, a group that sponsored and encouraged multicultural awareness on campus for many years.

The large mural of Gloria Estefan which Mark kisses early in the film was visible for many years on the separate building, on South Water Street, that stood in for the back of the store.

" The signage out front in later years there was a space mural by Toronto artist Kevin Davies.

Frank S. Nugent of the New York Times felt compressing Ferber's saga spanning fifty years into the story of a single generation " arrested the panoramic sweep of the story, converting it from a mural of the American scene into a vividly toned portrait of a man.

He first work as teacher of drawing at the Liceo de Colonia, where he managed to paint the large mural, Alegoría al Trabajo ( 1936 ), and later as a professor of the Montevideo Fine Arts School, where he taught for 25 years.

* In 1947, Rudolph F. Zallinger finished painting dinosaurs in their natural habitats in his long mural The Age of Reptiles, after 3-1 / 2 years of work.

The mural will become a prominent landmark in the neighborhood for years to come.

The mural was created 30 years before the opening of the Center between 1952 and 1954.