Larsson considered his frescoes & murals his most important work & was disappointed that they did not receive the attention he felt they deserved. Entry of King Gustav (1908), The Household (1908), The Study Room (1908) & the Bedroom (1909)

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Florence study abroad with day 3: Brancaci chapel frescoes under restoration and a cool coat of arms with crayfish!

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There are loads of sick frescoes in the Vatican but this beauty in the Hall of Constantine is my fav. I wonder if Raphael was pissed off with his super fussy clients so he gave them this dwarf with his ballbag hanging out as a fuck you? 😆

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“Blue Bird” fresco depicts a blue bird sitting among plants on a rock
in a mountainous landscape.
Part of a large landscape fresco that once decorated spacious room of a house west of palace of Knossos, “House of frescoes, 1600-1500 BC, at Knossos, Crete.

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Portrait of a Man (c1506) & Portrait of a Lady (c1506). His next major commission was to paint frescoes on the exterior of the German Merchant’s Hall. This was an important work in that it was visible to all & thus had a massive influence on his contemporaries.

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I did my PhD on wall painting but the frescoes from Pompeii will never cease to amaze me: a beautiful dove from the Casa del Bracciale d'oro.
On display in the special exhibition "Art and sensuality in the houses of Pompeii" - in Pompeii.

Photo: https://t.co/NQtL9xrhgD

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Artist Mear's trilogy of frescoes paying homage to the ancient murals of China is available .

Mear uses a technique called 也可以叫岩彩, which incorporates mineral pigments, to simulate the making of the original murals.

Link below👇

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First stop - the Naples National Archaeological Museum.

I knew what to expect - mostly - but there’s nothing to quite prepare you for staring down the level of artistry in the two millennia-old frescoes, mostly salvaged from houses in Pompeii and housed here 🧵

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Reni’s commission to paint the Crucifixion of St Peter (1604-5) as well as his frescoes at the Casino dell’Aurora (1614-16) established his reputation as one of the greatest artists working in Rome at the time. His Aurora (1614) was one of the most influential works among artists

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The great pleasure of a Ghirlandaio fresco is that there is so much to take in. Each character has their own story to tell & the mind soon takes flight trying to arrive at what they are thinking. Further details of the S Trinita frescoes.

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🪔 For a Nightingale from the House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii. The nightingale is a migratory bird 🐦, residing mostly in woods. It was rarely painted on frescoes because it was not colorful. It is likely to have been kept as a caged bird for its 🎶 songs.

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Vaporwave Sistine Chapel [first two]

Vaporwave Sistine Chapel frescoes [second two]

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The Battle of Anghiari
Fresco, Leonardo da Vinci, 1505
Copy by Peter Paul Rubens

The Battle of Anghiari (1505) is a lost painting by Leonardo da Vinci, known as "The Lost Leonardo", believed hidden beneath one of the later frescoes in the Salone dei Cinquecento (Hall of the...

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World Art Day - Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564, Creation of Adam, The Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes

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A frescoed woman with a lyre sits above a doorway at Villa San Marco. Stabiae. As well as other frescoes from the

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Amazons in cityscape, Roman frescoes

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One of the coolest things about the Kyiv Sophia Cathedral is that it has quite a few secular frescos preserved on its stairwells. As far as I understand, these frescoes are the only (or close to that?) example of secular figurative visual art from 11 century Rus.

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