World Art Day – Happy Birthday Leonardo da Vinci – April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519 - ‘Battle of Anghiari’ (Peter Paul Ruben's copy of the lost ‘Battle of Anghiari’ after the remains of Leonardo's fresco covered up by frescoes by Vasari, beginning in 1563.

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Working from books of paintings of frescoes Some painters were extremely accurate, some less so. Sometimes their works is all that is left of the originals since damaged by neglect, theft or destroyed in war.
Achilles discovered in Skyros, House of the Dioscuri

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the commission to decorate with frescoes the rooms that are now known as the Stanze di Raffaello (Raphael Rooms), in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. The Vision of the Cross is located in the Sala di Costantino (Hall of Constantine).

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Venere su quadriga trainata da quattro elefanti - I° sec DC

Officina di Verecundus, Pompei, Napoli 🇮🇹
Museo Madre di Arte Contemporanea, Napoli
pic © A. Benestante

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Aurora (1614)

Guido Reni (1575-1642)🖌️ 🇮🇹
fresco ceiling, 280 x 700 cm
Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi, Rome, Italy

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The title cards/frescoes for the last act of Season 2 make a tapestry. I think my favorite is the one from EP25, not sure though

And a huge thanks to u/UGHToastIU for finding this! https://t.co/uphpnh45Kq

Et nice easter egg ! J'avais jamais remarqué

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Located in current Republika Srpska, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the complex was finished in 1974. Along with historian Dusan Plenča, Hegedušić completed a series of 13 frescoes. Recently restored, it illustrates the fascist occupation of Yugoslavia and the organized resistance to it.

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Frescoes from the middle of the VII AD preserved in Santa Maria Antiqua from Roma It represents Christ

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4/10 Piet de Jong’s longest collaboration was with the Athenian Agora & the , where he documented three decades of incredible finds.

Unlike his work at Bronze Age palaces, this meant working with everything from burnished Neolithic pottery to Byzantine frescoes!

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Next to scenes resembling miniatures or frescoes, I also love doing focusing on colour and patterns rather than the grey and dirty look of much of modern fantasy.

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Marriage of Mary, S Maria Novella (1486-90). Frescoes must be painted quickly in patches as the plaster dries & are one of the most challenging art forms - he was the master.

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His Birth of St John the Baptist is one of his most beautiful frescoes in the Basilica of S Maria Novella (1486-90)

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On January 8, 1337, Giotto di Bondone,an Italian painter, architect, Franciscan tertiary died in Florence. Most important works include frescoes in the Padua Scrovegni Chapel,the Church of Santa Croce, Florence and the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi.
Kiss of Judas, Scrovegni

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11th Century Bulgarian Proniar, using the 11th century Zemen frescoes and a 9th century nasal phrygian helmet find as a basis.

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While we see slaves depicted in Roman frescoes & mosaics—often skulking in the margins & shown as diminutive in size—there’s no image more powerful of their cruel treatment than the shackles around the ankles of a slave who failed to escape

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The Queen of Heaven and angels pla (Frescoes in the Palazzo Quirinale, Cappella dell'Annunciata, vault fresco scene), 1611

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a wee review of the galleries, I have visited beyond UK shores. Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence and the truly superb It is known as the ‘Sistine Chapel of the early Renaissance’. Frescoes by

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It was once a loggia with five large arches looking onto the garden, which were closed up at the end of the eighteenth century to protect the frescoes of Lanfranco.

⁠👤 Giovanni Lanfranco


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