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unusual facts about mural painting



Paintings from Arlanza

The paintings from Arlanza are a set of frescos belonging to the mural decoration of a former Benedictine monastery in San Pedro de Arlanza (closed in 1841), in the Province of Burgos, Spain, dating to around 1210, and now dispersed among a number of collections.


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Anita Parkhurst Willcox

She studied at the Chicago Art Institute from 1909 to 1913, learning classic drawing; but also studying mural-painting with John W. Norton.

Aquiles Badi

He achieved another distinction in the Second National Exhibition of decorative artists and the First Prize for Mural Painting from the National Commission on Culture.

Galo Galecio

He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Guayaquil, and received a scholarship to study printmaking and mural painting at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico from 1944-1946.

Jesús Álvarez Amaya

He had his first contact with mural painting at the Mexican Navy headquarters where he painted a portion of the sky on a mural there.

Marcin Bogusławski

In 2006 graduated from painting (diploma under supervision of professor Stanisław Baj and diploma appendix from mural painting under supervision of professor Edward Tarkowski).

Novgorod School

The Novgorod School is a Russian school noted for its icon and mural painters active from the 12th century through the 16th century in Novgorod.

Rina Lazo

Rina Lazo, full name Rina Lazo Wasem, (b. October 23, 1923) is a Guatemalan/Mexican painter, who began her career in mural painting with Diego Rivera as his assistant.

Stefan Valev

He then enrolled at the National Academy of Arts in the capital Sofia, and after being twice expelled from there as politically incompatible with the communist political dogma, he was finally allowed to finish his studies of mural painting under Georgi Bogdanov.

Then Play On

The painting used for the cover of the album is "Domesticated Mural Painting", by the English artist Maxwell Armfield.