Fresco is an ancient technique of painting that is usually used to decorate the inner and outer walls of buildings by painting over wet plaster surfaces. The earliest found paintings that fell ...

The painting is the last known portrait of any ... but the association of purple with royalty lives on. The fresco is believed to be the work of an artist from Mystras, a town south of the ...

Located in the former Dominican convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy, the painting is 15 feet high. It stretches roughly 29 feet wide. Da Vinci painted the fresco between 1496 and ...

I’m not an artist by any stretch, so when I started poking around Adobe’s Fresco, the drawing and painting app for the iPad and iPhone, I approached the app with trepidation. I shouldn’t have. Fresco ...

Marcia Myers was an American painter best known for her large-scale Color Field abstractions. Emulating the traditional fresco painting techniques of ancient Rome, she used several layers of marble ...

The newly-uncovered fresco was found on a half-crumbled wall in what was the hallway of a house in Pompeii Archaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have uncovered a painting which ...

Byzantine art had a significant impact on the Italian Renaissance and the evolution of the cultural boom of the early modern ages.

The fresco is in a room found to be littered with ... The mythological figure was very popular within Roman art. He is also where the term narcissism comes from - meaning an excessive interest ...