Its late Baroque frescoes were executed in 1752.

Frescoes covered every surface that was not more richly finished.

Especially famous are frescoes by masters of Gothic and early Renaissance.

Several members of important Florentine families were portrayed on these frescoes.

The vault contains fragments of frescoes by 13th century Greek painters.

The frescoes on the walls are from the 15th 17th centuries.

It has been dated around 1290 and is therefore contemporary with the Assisi frescoes.

The interior has a nave with no aisles, and 15th and 17th centuries frescoes.

Most of these monks embellished their caves with religious statuary and elaborate, brightly colored frescoes.

During 1593 94, all three Carraccis were working on frescoes in Palazzo Sampieri in Bologna.

The frescoes depict probably the life cycle of the name saint of the church, Praxedes.

There s a legend associated with the creation of the ceiling frescoes involving a snooping monk.

The series of frescoes from Filippino Lippi depict the lives of Philip the Apostle and James the Apostle.

The frescoes were commissioned by Tommaso Strozzi, an ancestor of Filippo Strozzi, to Nardo di Cione (1350 1357).

After the invasion of the Hyksos in the Second Intermediate Period, Minoan style frescoes were found in Avaris.

The church of Santa Maria della Purità has 18th century frescoes by Giambattista Tiepolo and his son Domenico.

The School of Athens, or in Italian, is one of the most famous frescoes by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael.

In 2006 the chapel was restored, and during those works were popular original frescoes, dating from the early 16th century.

Frescoes in Palazzo Farnese Based on the prolific and masterful frescoes by the Carracci in Bologna, Annibale was recommended by the Duke of Parma, Ranuccio I Farnese, to his brother, the Cardinal Odoardo Farnese, who wished to decorate the piano nobile of the cavernous Roman Palazzo Farnese.

From 1589 to 1592, the three Carracci brothers completed the frescoes on the Founding of Rome for Palazzo Magnani in Bologna.

Nowadays you can see alchemical symbols on the walls and frescoes depicting for example the mythical phoenix and the solar system.

The next Baroque wonder the Library Hall with amazing frescoes and several valuable historical globes is right above the Mirror Chapel.

In the Philosophical Hall, you can admire books, richly decorated furniture and the ceiling with frescoes depicting the spiritual evolution of humanity.

The interior is decorated with ceiling frescoes depicting the lives of St. Nicolas and St. Benedict and motifs from the Old Testament.

The interiors are also decorated in Baroque style the ceilings are adorned with abundant stuccos and frescoes depicting dynamic figures in movement.

The choir (or the Cappella Tornabuoni) contains another series of famous frescoes, by Domenico Ghirlandaio and his apprentice the young Michelangelo (1485 1490).

The 13th century frescoes, which were reconstructed, depict scenes from the lives of St. Lawrence and St. Stephen, both being martyred, young deacons.

Wittkower was surprised that a Farnese cardinal surrounded himself with frescoes of libidinous themes, indicative of a considerable relaxation of counter reformatory morality .

The room was built at the time of Early Baroque and visitors will be impressed by its unique frescoes and stucco ceiling decorations.

You can listen to the bubbling water, shrieking peacocks, echoing music or to the stories told by the epic frescoes on the walls.

Other Art The apse of the Basilica includes frescoes telling the Legends of the True Cross , attributed to Melozzo, Antoniazzo Romano, and Marco Palmezzano.

Interior decoration The apse contains the frescoes (1630) by Giovanni da San Giovanni of the four patron martyr saints, Severo, Severiano, Carpoforo e Vittorino.

Wittkower states Carracci's frescoes convey the impression of a tremendous joie de vivre, a new blossoming of vitality and of an energy long repressed .

While Michelangelo could bend and contort the body into all the possible perspectives, Carracci in the Farnese frescoes had shown how it could dance.

The second courtyard holds the entrance to the Oratorio di San Silvestro , with frescoes of medieval origin, as well as others by Raffaellino da Reggio.

Central Asian and East Asian Buddhist monks appear to have maintained strong exchanges until around the 10th century, as shown by frescoes from the Tarim Basin.

For example, the frescoes on the story of Jason for Palazzo Fava in Bologna (c. 1583 84) are signed Carracci , which suggests that they all contributed.

Her Villa ad Gallinas Albas north of Rome is currently being excavated its famous frescoes of imaginary garden views may be seen at National Museum of Rome.

There are also numerous bombastic Medicean tapestries on the walls, including Stories of the Life of St. John the Baptist , taken from the frescoes of Andrea del Sarto.

These rooms, formerly part of the private royal apartments, are decorated with 17th century frescoes, the most splendid being by Giovanni da San Giovanni, from 1635 to 1636.

On the ground floor of the bell tower (built from 1441 over the ancient baptistry) is a chapel which is completely adorned with frescoes by Vitale da Bologna (1349).

Mantegna's main legacy in considered the introduction of spatial illusionism, both in frescoes and in sacra conversazione paintings his tradition of ceiling decoration was followed for almost three centuries.

Roman frescoes were done by the artist painting the artwork on the still damp plaster of the wall, so that the painting is part of the wall, actually colored plaster.

The frescoes are inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy Last Judgment (on the back wall including a portrait of Dante), Hell (on the right wall) and paradise (on the left wall).

One of Domenichino's masterpieces, his frescoes of Scenes of the Life of Saint Cecilia in the Polet Chapel of San Luigi dei Francesi, was commissioned in 1612 and completed in 1615.