The Renaissance era was one of the most beautiful and out-of-the-world revolutions in the arts arena. Be it unique painting ...

A fresco is a painting technique in which ... fresco decoration can be found in what was the ancient Greek city of Poseidonia (Paestum to the Romans), not far from the modern day Italian city ...

Mostly earth tones were used due to the bleaching tendencies of the lime on blue hues. A film of calcium carbonate would form over the painting as it dried, making the wall extremely durable and ...

27.5 x 33.5 cm. (10.8 x 13.2 in.) ...

A recently excavated Roman fresco from a house dating to the end of the first century B.C. depicts a human figure on a vibrant red background. It is among the highest quality wall paintings ever ...

Mostly earth tones were used due to the bleaching tendencies of the lime on blue hues. A film of calcium carbonate would form over the painting as it dried, making the wall extremely durable and ...

They were painted on limestone with wet natural pigments. Fresco painting was popular in Ancient Greece and Rome and then adopted by Byzantine and Kyivan Rus painters. However, the most ...

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 ...

In the same area, there is another notable fresco that shows ... experience for the room's occupants. Paintings known as ...

Archaeologists unearth significant new paintings in the ancient Roman town buried by a volcano ... the flatbread depicted in the 2,000 year-old fresco may be a precursor to the Italian dish.