Fresco painting: Media
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The Annunciation, fresco by Fra Angelico, 1438–45; in the Museum of San...
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Frescoed wall of fruit trees, palms, and oleanders from the garden room of the Villa...
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The Nativity, fresco by Giotto, c. 1305–06, depicting the birth of Jesus;...
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Depiction of bull leaping in The Toreador Fresco, restored wall painting...
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Creation of Adam, detail of the ceiling fresco by Michelangelo, 1508–12;...
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A fresco of an angel is in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore (the Duomo) in...
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Vaulting with frescoes, oil on canvas by Juan Gersón, 1562; in the Franciscan church...
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Plate 13: “Aurora,” ceiling fresco by Guido Reni, 1613-14. In the Casino Rospigliosi,...
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Byzantine frescoes in Asinou Church, Nikitari, Cyprus. The image depicts Christ's...
unbekannter Maler A.D. 1106
Delphic Sibyl, fresco by Michelangelo, 1508–12; in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican...
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Deposition from the Cross, painting by Rosso Fiorentino, 1521; in the Pinacoteca...
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Gregory IX consecrating the chapel of St. Gregory, detail of a fresco, 13th century;...
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Fresco of the Teaching Buddha at the Gubyaukgyi temple, 12th century, Pagan, Myanmar.
J.A. Lavaud, Paris
Ludovico Gonzaga, His Family and Court, detail of a fresco by Andrea Mantegna,...
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Reconstructed Mayan fresco from Bonampak in what is now Chiapas state, Mexico, original...
Ygunza/FPG
Polyphemus and Galatea in a landscape, Roman fresco from the imperial villa of Agrippa...
Photograph by AlkaliSoaps. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Rogers Fund, 1920 (20.192.17)
St. Thomas Aquinas Enthroned Between the Doctors of the Old and New Testaments,...
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The Effects of Good Government in the City, by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, 1338–40,...
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The Last Supper, fresco by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1480; in the Church of...
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Frescoed throne room, palace of King Minos at Knossos, Crete, c. 1700–1400
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Fresco on the ceiling of the Camera degli Sposi, by Andrea Mantegna, completed 1474....
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Woman playing a kithara (lyre), Roman fresco, c. 40–30 bc;...
Photograph by Stephen Sandoval. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Rogers Fund, 1903 (03.14.5)
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