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Diego Rivera Gallery

The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City (1931) is one of four murals in the Bay Area painted by Mexican artist Diego Rivera (1886–1957).


1677 in art

Pietro Giarguzzi - The Holy Trinity crowning the Blessed Virgin Mary (fresco) at San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane.

Apse of Santa Maria d'Àneu

The Apse of Santa María d'Àneu is a romanesque apse of the church of Santa Maria d'Àneu, the transferred frescos from which are now exhibited at Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, in Barcelona.

Beverly Willis

Upon graduation from the University of Hawaii, Willis founded the Willis Atelier in Waikiki, where she continued the mural and fresco work begun in college under the training of Jean Charlot.

Breaking bread

Fractio Panis, literally "Breaking of the Bread" (Latin), a fresco

Carlo Cane

He copied the works of Morazzone with success, and became a historical painter, particularly in fresco.

Casa Cogollo

The constraints posed by a narrow space and the impossibility of opening windows at the centre of the piano nobile (because of an existing fireplace and its flue) induced Palladio to emphasise the façade’s central axis, by realising a structure with a ground floor arch flanked by engaged columns, and on the upper storey a tabernacle frame for a fresco by Giovanni Antonio Fasolo.

Cherubino Cornienti

In 1850, he was commissioned a fresco on Christ at Emmaus for the Convent of the Cappuccini of Tivoli.

Chiaravalle Abbey

The complex is accessed through a 16th-century tower commissioned by Louis XII of France; to the side there is an oratory dedicated to Saint Bernard which contains a fresco of Christ standing before Pilate, once attributed to Hieronymus Bosch but today assigned to the Swiss Hans Witz (also known as Johannes Sapidus), who was court painter in Milan during the rule of Galeazzo Maria Sforza.

Church of Saint Roch, Žižkov

The Stations of the Cross were painted by G. W. Weis in 1854 according to drawings of Führichových, while the great fresco above the entrance to the sacristy, which depicts the Litany, was created in 1766 by J. Steter.

Church of St. George, Staro Nagoričane

During this reconstruction period, the church's walls were painted with frescoes by Mihailo and Evtihij, among which are depictions of Stefan Milutin and his queen, Simonida.

Detroit Industry Murals

The Detroit Industry Murals are a series of frescoes by the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, consisting of twenty-seven panels depicting industry at the Ford Motor Company.

Donor portrait

For example a chapel at Mals in South Tyrol has two fresco donor figures from before 881, one lay and the other of a tonsured cleric holding a model building.

Edward Armitage

Armitage was one of four students selected to assist Delaroche with the fresco Hemicycle in the amphitheatre of the Palais des Beaux-Arts, when he reputedly modelled for the head of Masaccio.

Eremo delle Carceri

St. Bernardine also built a small church called Santa Maria delle Carceri (differs from a church of the same name at Prato), today with an altarpiece fresco of the Virgin and Child, which extended the earlier chapel.

Flag of Colombia

After Miranda later designed his flag based on this conversation, he happily recalled seeing a fresco by Lazzaro Tavarone in the Palazzo Belimbau in Genoa that depicted Christopher Columbus unfurling a similar-coloured flag in Veragua during his fourth voyage.

Francesco Borromini

In 1668, Carlo Rainaldi returned as architect and Ciro Ferri received the commission to fresco the dome interior which it is highly unlikely that Borromini intended.

Francesco De Lorenzi

Francesco De Lorenzi (Varese, 1827- Campomorone, June 16, 1900) was an Italian painter, mainly of ornamental fresco decoration.

Gambier Parry process

The Gambier Parry process is a development of the classical technique of fresco for painting murals, named for Thomas Gambier Parry.

Girolamo Amalteo

Girolamo Amalteo, the brother of Pomponio, was instructed by him and gave proofs of a noble genius, which is manifested in his works of design in small pictures, which appeared like miniatures, in several fables executed in fresco, and in altar-pieces which he painted in the church of San Vito.

Gordevio

It contains paintings by Giovanni Antonio Vanoni (19th Century) and probably by Giuseppe Antonio Felice Orelli, who created frescoes in the adjacent ossuary in 1753.

Great Hall of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

The refectory was painted by Callisto Piazza, who provident in 1545 to adorn the wall with a magnificent fresco, still visible, showing the "Wedding at Cana".

Jan Kryštof Liška

In Doksany he painted St. Augustine, at the monastery in Munich Hradište he painted St. Anthony, St. Francis and the Three Kings and for the Plasy monastery he painted St. Magdalene fresco (1692).

His influence is evident especially in the fresco painter Wenzel Lorenz Reiner, and also with Petr Brandl.

Januarius Zick

Januarius Zick was born in Munich and began to learn his trade from his father, Johannes Zick, a renowned painter himself, to whom he was apprenticed in order to learn how to paint frescoes.

Johannes Zick

Johannes (Johann) Zick (January 10, 1702 – March 4, 1762) was a German painter of frescoes in southern Germany and active during the Baroque period.

John Bixler

Other regional credits include Hally in Master Harold and the Boys by Athol Fugard at Gables Stage, Joe in The Last Sunday in June at Caldwell Theatre, David in the one man show Santaland Diaries at Fresco Productions in residence at the Jerry Herman Ring Theatre, Jake Mace in House and Garden by Alan Ayckbourn and Turkey in Johnny Guitar all at Actor's Playhouse.

John Tenniel

For this he received a £200 premium and a commission to paint a fresco in the Upper Waiting Hall (or Hall of Poets) in the House of Lords.

Jules-Élie Delaunay

After his return from Rome he was entrusted with many important commissions for decorative paintings, such as the frescoes in the church of St Nicholas at Nantes; the three panels of Apollo, Orpheus and Amphion at the Paris Opera house; and twelve paintings for the great hall of the council of state in the Palais Royal.

Križna Gora

It contains many well-preserved frescos from 1502 that depict the legends of Saint Ulrich, to whom the church was dedicated until 1867, and of Saint Corbinian.

La Chaise-Dieu

The fresco of the Dance of Death (ca 1470) is a famous example of this motif, which gained wide currency following the visitations of the Black Death.

Lo Spagna

The apse of the church of San Giovanni Battista in the small village of Eggi contains a fresco completed by a hand from Lo Spagna’s studio working from a drawing by the artist.

Luigi Da Rios

Among his fresco work was his paintings for Villa Bisacco-Palazzi in Chirignago (1864), in Villa Visconti di Modrone on Lake Como (1866) and in the parish church of Chirignago (1878).

Madonna del Parto

The fresco also plays an important role in Richard Hayer's novel Visus, in Andrei Tarkovsky's film Nostalghia, and in the poem "San Sepolcro" by Jorie Graham.

Master of 1302

His works were basically Gothic in style, with modernized touches; his name comes from a set of votive frescos painted for bishop Gerardo de' Bianchi, who died in 1302; among these is a Madonna and Child Enthroned with an Angel and John the Baptist, including a portrait of the donor, located in the Baptistry of Parma.

Matthäus Günther

Rattenberg—Parish Church of St. Virgil (ceiling frescoes and fresco in the sacristy) (1736)

Michelino Molinari da Besozzo

Michelino's last known work is the fresco with the Procession of the Magi in the church of Santa Maria di Podone of Milan and fragments in the Rocca Borromeo di Angera (1445–1446).

Morodvis

The church is an example of the medieval architectural concept, fresco-painted, with flooring made in sextuple technique and church furniture made of carved stone.

Musée national Eugène Delacroix

Today the museum contains Delacroix's memorabilia and works, exhibiting pictures from nearly every phase of his career, including the artist's only three attempts at fresco from Valmont (1834); the Education of the Virgin painted in Nohant in 1842; and Magdalene in the Desert exhibited at the 1845 Salon.

Nancy Spero

In Florence and Ischia that Spero became intrigued by the format, style and mood of Etruscan and Roman frescoes and sarcophagi which would influence her later work.

Sacra di San Michele

On the left wall is a large fresco portraying the Annunciation (1505), while in the Old Choir is a triptych by Defendente Ferrari.

Sansepolcro Cathedral

Works of art in the interior include the Incredulity of St. Thomas by Santi di Tito (1576–1577), a Crucifixion fresco by Bartolomeo della Gatta (1486), an Adoration of the Shepherd by Durante Alberti and, at the high altar, the Resurrection Polyptych by Niccolò di Segna (c. 1348).

Santa Maria di Costantinopoli

The apse lunette was decorated by Belisario Corenzio with a fresco of the Virgin & John the Baptist pleading with the Trinity to liberate Naples from the plague.

Serbian eagle

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Shanghai Institute of Visual Art

Guest lecturers and professors include Asia's most renowned actor Jackie Chan, “Michelangelo of Modern Times” fresco artist Rainer Maria Latzke, Beowulf and Spider-Man movie animator Sing-Chong Foo, Japanese manga master Makoto Ogino, the creator of the “Peacock King”, and renowned painters Carlos Morell Orlandis and Piers Maxwell Dudley-Bateman.

Stubbekøbing

Stubbekøbing Church, built in the Romanesque style in the 13th century, has a Renaissance altarpiece and an elaborately carved pulpit as well as a variety of old frescos and wall decorations (1300–1500).

Sunday Christ

The fresco in the church in San Pietro di Feletto in north east Italy is a particularly fine example.

The Coronation of Charlemagne

Though it is believed that Raphael did make the designs for the composition, the fresco was probably painted by Gianfrancesco Penni.

The Feast of Herod

The Feast of Herod (Giotto), third fresco in a series of Scenes from the Life of St John the Baptist by Giotto, circa 1320

The Three Marys

What may be the earliest known representation of three women visiting the tomb of Jesus is a fairly large fresco in the Dura-Europos church in the ancient city of Dura Europos on the Euphrates.


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