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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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2022-02-04

Villa A at Oplontis (Poppea’s Villa) has been on my wish list for visiting for a year. Believed to be the seaside residence of Nero’s second wife, it was only properly excavated in the 1960s. It is held to contain the very best frescoes in the Roman world (1/2)

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2022-01-15

2/2 Kid in the tree: one of best details in Giotto’s Arena Chapel frescoes. It’s his day today.

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2022-01-09

Are you familiar with some of the outer scenes of the Sistine Chapel ceiling?

I just released a new video about Michelangelo's wonderful frescoes on the spandrels, lunettes, and pedentives of the Sistine Ceiling: https://t.co/TrVz7nGJyZ

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2022-01-08

4 birds from Pompeii and Oplontis Roman frescoes , printed on awesome apparel and household goods.
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2022-01-06

A selection of birds perched on the branches of trees from the garden frescoes of the triclinium (dining room) of the House of Livia at Prima Porta. 🦜🐦

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2022-01-05

Elisabeth Vellacott's images of people in houses, gardens and landscapes have a timeless and magical air - as if figures from early Italian frescoes had changed their clothes and wandered into her home city of Cambridge.

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2021-11-19

Watched a very interesting tv programme with Bettany Hughes last night, about the sad demise of 4 citizens at Pompeii & Herculaneum during Vesuvius’ eruption.I was so struck with the stunning depictions of nature in their murals & frescoes...

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2021-10-30

In 1460 Mantegna was appointed Court artist by Ludovico III Gonzaga at his Ducal Court in Mantua. There he created frescoes in the Camera degli Sposi, Ducal Palace, Mantua (1465-74). These document the Duke & his Court. His oculus is one of the triumphs of the Renaissance

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2021-10-19

From 2,000 years ago ~ remarkably-conserved frescoes from the Villa of Livia, wife of the Emperor Augustus. The villa was rediscovered in 16C just outside Rome & was probably part of the dowry Livia brought to her marriage in 39 BC (Palazzo Massimo Museum)

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2021-10-16

These are probably some of the most beautiful They can be seen at the church of Protaton, Mount (#Greece) and are the work of famous fresco-painter Manuel Pansellinos 13/14th century. https://t.co/PzyshVXguJ

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2021-09-30

September 28, 1854: Painter Ignác Roskovics is born in Slavkovce 🇸🇰 († 1915). His work spans many classifications: frescoes, altar paintings, iconostases, portraits, genre scenes, still lifes, & book illustrations. Roskovics was a representative of the Munich School realism.

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2021-09-28

I have a new blog up on my website, Ruthieonart,biz. I wrote in in 2006 when I was studying art at the University of Texas at Dallas. It is about the Frescoes of St. Thomas that illustrates philosopher Thomas Aquinas’s seven virtues of faith, hope, charity, justice, prudence, t

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2021-09-28

Joseph Anton Koch, detail from Casa Massimo frescoes in Ariosto Hall, Rome, 1825–1828. Inferno, Cantos XIV–XV: Maleboge, the eighth circle of Hell, where vengeful reptiles torture thieves.

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2021-09-18

New frescoes in a Maltese Church

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2021-09-04

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Sacrifice of Iphigeneia (1st century AD)

Roman fresco, 140 x 138 cm
Casa del Poeta Tragico
Pompeii (VI, 8, 3.5), Naples 🇮🇹

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2021-08-28

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Cacciata di Eliodoro dal Tempio (1511-12)

Affresco
Raffaello Sanzio (1483-1520)🎨🇮🇹
Stanza di Eliodoro, Musei Vaticani
Città del Vaticano

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2021-08-07

Two of my favourite frescoes from Pompeii that survived the eruption in 79AD ~ elegant, barefoot young woman, possibly the nymph Flora, treading lightly, carrying basket & turning to gather spring flowers (from Villa Arianna) ■ and basket of figs (Poppea’s Villa)

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2021-08-01

Leonardo used oils and a thick undercoat of wax which caused the colours to run, and both frescoes were ultimately abandoned. The closest approximation we have to Leonardo’s painting is Rubens’ drawing, based on an earlier engraving that may have used the cartoon as its source.

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2021-07-18