He himself was once convicted of painting erotica and jailed for 24 days -- the first three of which he spent desperately trying to make paintings on the wall with his own spittle.

With naked gas jets below and leaky windows above, enough to ruin wall paintings in any medium, they have survived, in a building long unheated in winter, hot and damp under the iron dome in summer.

Work of preventive conservation in a rock wall with prehistoric paintings at the Serra da Capivara National Park.

The tradition of wall painting can be traced back to Indian rock art paintings that date back to 4000 BC.

Conservation has six specialist areas: ceramics & glass ; metals ; organic material ( including textiles ); stone, wall paintings and mosaics ; Eastern pictorial art and Western pictorial art.

Thus were preserved and securely dated an early decorated church and a synagogue decorated with extensive wall paintings.

There were also painted schemes in Basel ( the earliest dating from c. 1440 ); a series of paintings on canvas by Bernt Notke, in Lübeck ( 1463 ); the initial fragment of the original Bernt Notke painting ( accomplished at the end of the 15th century ) in the St Nicholas ' Church, Tallinn, Estonia ; the painting at the back wall of the chapel of Sv.

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

Roman wall paintings, such as those at the magnificent Villa dei Misteri ( 1st century B. C.

Scenes from epics of Mahabharat and Ramayan along with portraits of local lords form the subject matter of these wall paintings.

Rang Mahal of Chamba ( Himachal Pradesh ) is another site of historic Dogri fresco with wall paintings depicting scenes of Draupti Cheer Haran, and Radha-Krishna Leela.

In Denmark too, church wall paintings or kalkmalerier were widely used in the Middle Ages ( first Romanesque then Gothic ) and can be seen in some 600 Danish churches as well as in churches in the south of Sweden which was Danish at the time.

Graffiti ranges from simple written words to elaborate wall paintings, and has existed since ancient times, with examples dating back to Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire.

As well as slogans, Northern Irish political graffiti include large wall paintings, referred to as murals.

Throughout the Roman world, ceramics, lamps, gems and jewellery, mosaics, reliefs, wall paintings and statuary offer evidence, sometimes the best evidence, of the clothing, props, equipment, names, events, prevalence and rules of gladiatorial combat.

The Water Newton Treasure is a hoard of Christian silver church plate from the early 4th century and the Roman villas at Lullingstone and Hinton St Mary contained Christian wall paintings and mosaics respectively.

For example, Joseph Goering of the University of Toronto has identified sources for Grail imagery in 12th century wall paintings from churches in the Catalan Pyrenees ( now mostly removed to the Museu Nacional d ' Art de Catalunya, Barcelona ), which present unique iconic images of the Virgin Mary holding a bowl that radiates tongues of fire, images that predate the first literary account by Chrétien de Troyes.

Some wall paintings are painted on large canvases, which are then attached to the wall ( e. g., with marouflage ).

Tile murals tile paintings, which cover complete walls and give a wall painting-like impression.

In most cases gods and goddesses are often depicted in stone reliefs, pottery decoration, wall paintings and in the various Maya, Aztec and Mixtec codices.

These recordings were completed in only a matter of days, and along with a few drawings and one of Curt's paintings taken from the wall to serve as cover art ( a dish of three boiled eggs, a green pepper, and a bottle of Tabasco sauce ), were all sent to SST shortly before the band returned to the road en route to their next gig.

In addition he studied various other artistic disciplines ( sculpture, architecture, decoration, wall paintings ) and developed his knowledge of mythology, antiquities, anatomy, and perspective.

Azuchi Castle on the shores of Lake Biwa is said to have been the greatest castle in the history of Japan, covered with gold and statues on the outside and decorated with standing screen, sliding door, wall, and ceiling paintings made by his subject Kano Eitoku on the inside.

The wall surfaces to be covered being vast, a number of paintings were in fact done in oil on canvas.

Passing through the gate, with towers on either side once used as prisons, I entered a huge square surrounded by buildings, and on the wall to my right found a general plan of the grounds, with explanations in English for each building.

We found that three men -- two carpenters and a helper -- can put up wall panels or trusses more economically than four men -- because four men don't make two teams ; ;

An early terrace wall supports a precinct in which are a stoa and some remains of temples ; these were excavated by the British School at Athens in 1894, but little was found.

Often, other accessory molecules are found anchored to the cell wall.

This type of wall is found in some methanogens, such as Methanobacterium and Methanothermus.

A second type of archaeal cell wall is found in Methanosarcina and Halococcus.

The expected increase of fuel efficiency of the engine ( caused by the higher temperature, as shown by Carnot's theorem ) could not be verified experimentally ; it was found that the heat transfer on the hot ceramic cylinder walls is higher than the transfer to a cooler metal wall.

Since these geographic considerations imply that, not including the hill within, the walls would be willfully making the city prone to attack from it, some scholars, including the late 19th century surveyors of the Palestine Exploration Fund, consider it unlikely that a wall would ever have been built that would cut the hill off from the city in the valley ; archaeological evidence for the existence of an earlier city wall in such a location has never been found.

Several wall markings found in caves in Peru show drums used in various aspects of societal life.

Excavations made in 1879 and 1880 led to the discovery of the remains of this station, arranged round three sides of a courtyard some 100 ft. square, including traces of baths and other buildings, and a massive embanking wall above them, some 150 ft. in length, to protect them from landslips, while a discharge certificate ( tabula honestae missionis ) of sailors who had served in the Ravenna's fleet was found in some ruins here or hereabouts.

' Resistance ' a graffito found on a wall in Nablus, West Bank, Israel in 2011

In 2007, an old " strip " by Hergé was found on a wall of the school.

Researchers, however, determined that this visual examination of the bladder wall after stretching the bladder was not specific for IC / BPS and that the test, itself, can contribute to the development of small glomerulations ( that is, petechial hemorrhages ) often found in IC / BPS.

According to ancient Greek sources, a hecatomb ( a sacrifice of 100 cows ) was carried out for the festival and the people received the meat in the Kerameikos, possibly in the Dipylon courtyard ; excavators have found heaps of bones in front of the city wall.

The wall map was lost for a long time, but a copy was found in Schloss Wolfegg in southern Germany by Joseph Fischer in 1901.

Skeptics such as Milbourne Christopher have found that some cases of poltergeist activity can be attributed to unusual air currents, such as a 1957 case on Cape Cod where downdrafts from an uncovered chimney became strong enough to blow a mirror off of a wall and knock things off shelves.

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.

However, that this wall even existed was found by the Federal Surveillance Court of Review to have actually been a long-held misinterpretation by government agencies.

The structure has been since found to be a semicircular retaining wall of Hellenic origin that was partly restored during the Roman period.

Under the storm and closer to where most tornadoes are found, evidence of a supercell and likelihood of a tornado includes inflow bands ( particularly when curved ) such as a " beaver tail ", and other clues such as strength of inflow, warmth and moistness of inflow air, how outflow-or inflow-dominant a storm appears, and how far is the front flank precipitation core from the wall cloud.

Evidence of agriculture is provided by charred grains of wheat on the wall of a corded-ware vessel found in Iru settlement.

No trace is, however, found of a more extensive circuit, though the remains of two lines of wall, evidently connected with the port, are found in the small valley east of the city.

In 1363, during the Hundred Years ' War, a Commission of Inquiry found that disrepair, stone-robbing and ditch-filling had led to the Roman wall becoming eroded.