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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In 1602, the Castilian banker Juan Enríquez de Herrera commissioned Annibale Carracci to decorate the family chapel in the Roman church of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli. The frescoes are finally reunited for an exhibition in Madrid, Rome, and Barcelona https://t.co/Edm1HzPAgc

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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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| This stunning work from the Villa of the Mysteries in shows a Bacchic rite - the fifth of seven similar frescoes.

Here a woman kneels before a priestess beside a mynaed or thyiad and a figure holding a thyrsus.

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