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unusual facts about murals



Arcata Theatre

Inside details were in the Art Deco style, including cumulus clouds painted on the ceiling and Murals of swimming mermaids painted on the walls.

Buddhism in Khotan

Murals found there depicted two important Buddhist mythological figures, Hariti and Avalokitesvara, draped in cloth with Sassanian designs on.

Castet-Arrouy

The chancel was painted with murals by the painter Paul Noël Lasseran in 1901.

Changi Murals

In addition, a copy of one of the murals painted by Stanley had been brought to England and installed in the Garrison Church at Larkhill in Wiltshire.

Claggett Wilson

Patrons of the arts such as Solomon R. Guggenheim, Adolph Lewisohn, Edgar Rossin, James Cox Brady, and Rodney Sharp adorned their walls with his canvases and murals.

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.

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).

Dorothy Annan

The building is owned by Goldman Sachs, who wish to redevelop the site and oppose the listing of the murals.

Edmond Aman-Jean

Aman-Jean established his reputation primarily for his portraits, especially of female subjects; he was also noted for his murals in public and official buildings, including the Sorbonne.

Esteban Munras

Various religious-themed scenes (known as the "Munras murals") were painted by the local Salinan Indians under Munras' direction.

Evelyn Gibbs

In 2013, workmen rewiring St. Martins Church in Bilborough, Nottingham uncovered two of Gibbs murals, which had thought to have been destroyed in the 1970s.

Farahabad, Mazandaran

Situated on top of a hill with a view of the sea and the Elburz Mountains, it was decorated with murals by Reza Abbasi and goldwork by a German craftsman, and surrounded by gardens in the Persian style.

Gottardo Piazzoni

Piazzoni's best-known public work may be his 14 murals for the former headquarters of the San Francisco Public Library for architect George W. Kelham, ten of them dating from 1932, the other four painted in 1945 and not installed until the 1970s.

Hale Woodruff

Among Woodruff's well-known works is the three-panel Amistad Mutiny murals (1938), held at Talladega College in Talladega County, Alabama.

Hans Feibusch

He carried out several murals in the village of Portmeiron in Wales as a result of his friendship with Clough Williams-Ellis, and his portrait of Ellis is held in the National Portrait Gallery.

There is a series of 12 murals by Feibusch, each over 20 feet (6 m) tall, around the central hall of Newport Civic Centre telling the story of the history of Newport.

Hawaii State Library

The Edna Allyn Children's Room houses murals by artist Juliette May Fraser depicting Hawaiian legends while the garden courtyard features a mosaic of ocean currents by Hiroki Morinoue.

Henri Chrétien

In 1995 the abandoned villa was acquired by the artist Rainer Maria Latzke, who restored the villa and added new modern murals to the already existing frescoes.

Henry Fairfield Osborn

As a curator, he assembled a remarkable team of fossil hunters and preparators, including William King Gregory, Roy Chapman Andrews, a gentleman allegedly a possible inspiration for the creation of the fictional archeologist Indiana Jones, and Charles R. Knight, who made murals of dinosaurs in their habitats and sculptures of the living creatures.

Herbst Theatre

Eight large beaux-arts murals, created by Frank Brangwyn for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, adorn the walls while overhead five chandeliers hang from the blue and gold-leaf ceiling.

Hōryū-ji

Some of the looks and clothing drawn carries certain similarities with murals found in Ajanta Caves (India) or Dunhuang (China.) Also observed are Tang and Inidian flavors of the Bosatsu and Kannon drawn on the sides of the Amida.

Itzamna

From the Late Postclassic Paris Codex back in time to the Pre-Classic San Bartolo murals, god D (Itzamna) has the so-called Principal Bird Deity - perhaps the Yaxcocahmut mentioned above - for a transformative shape (see figure).

Jacob Burck

In 1935, Burck traveled to Moscow with Kriger and their young son to complete and install a set of murals commissioned by Intourist, Inc.

Jared French

French entered the Mural and Easel Painting Section of the Public Works of Art Project, initiated by the Department of the Treasury in 1933, after which he produced murals for the post office in Plymouth, Pennsylvania (1937), and for the Parcel Post Building in Richmond, Virginia (1939).

Jorge Swett

He created more than 100 murals during his lifetime, many of which can be seen in buildings throughout his hometown, such as the Municipal Museum of Guayaquil, the Social Security Fund Building, the old Simon Bolivar Airport, the Children's Hospital, the Catholic University of Santiago of Guayaquil, Ecuavisa, among others.

Julio Carreras

Shortly afterwards he was summoned by the bishopric of Mailín to paint 31 gigantic murals in a sanctuary constructed in the middle of the desert.

Kecskemét City Hall

Bertalan Székely, who also decorated the interior of the Matthias Church in Budapest, painted gilded murals on the interior of the Grand Hall.

LaSalle Towers Apartments

During the renovation, the exterior of the building was covered on three sides with trompe-l'œil murals by Richard Haas.

Lăzarea

Renovation of the renaissance murals started in 1987 with the help of UNESCO.

Louis Bouche

He painted murals at the Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior Building, Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, Ellenville, New York Post Office.

Luis Arenal Bastar

In 1936, he went to New York for a political meeting and stayed until 1937, painting murals at Bellevue Hospital Center and exhibiting his work.

Luz Jiménez

She also worked as a model for artist Diego Rivera and her portrait can be seen in at least three of his murals, one of them the famous Tlatelolco market scene.

Mar Amongo

On his return to comics, the Philippine government commissioned him to do some murals, which he adapted from one of Paul Twitchell's books on Eckankar.

Masseube

In 1932-33, in honor of the 50th year after the renovation, Paul Noël Lasseran was called to paint murals.

Ming Fay

Fay has also completed numerous public art commissions including a suspended glass and steel sculpture for a residential lobby in Philadelphia, a large scale tree sculpture in Puerto Rico, sculptural benches for the New York City Staten Island Ferry Terminal and glass mosaic murals for the Delancey Street – Essex Street New York City subway station.

Paul Kelpe

In 1936–1937, Kelpe painted two large abstract murals for Brooklyn's Williamsburg Housing Project after being hired by Burgoyne Diller for the New York City Works Progress Administration Mural Program of the Federal Art Project.

Peter Blume

Blume worked for the Section of Painting and Sculpture of the U.S. Treasury Department, painting at least two post office murals, in Geneva, New York, and Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.

Ralf Henricksen

Murals were also commissioned to him as part of the Treasury Section of Fine Arts at the Stanton (IL) and Monroe (Michigan) Post Offices.

Reichenau Island

The famous artworks of Reichenau include the Ottonian murals of miracles of Christ in St Georg, unique survivals from the 10th century.

Robert Bechtle

When he graduated, he was drafted and sent to Berlin, where he painted murals in the Mess Hall and delighted in visiting European museums.

Robert D. San Souci

N.C. Wyeth's Pilgrims (1991) (illustrated by murals begun by Wyeth for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company)

Sharon Irla

Her collective body of works span the fields of painting, murals, graphics, photography, and custom picture frames with Southeastern Woodlands / Mississippian motifs.

Stockel metro station

Murals on the walls across each of the tracks from the single island platform illustrate more than 140 characters from Hergé's comic The Adventures of Tintin.

TATS CRU

TATS CRU are also a major producer of New York style memorial murals, and have created artwork for many musicians including Nikki Minaj, Missy Elliot, Metallica, Big Pun, Jennifer Lopez, Rick Ross, DJ Kool Herc, Nas and many more.

The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs

Among the 8th-century murals in Panjakent, in the western Sugdh province of Tajikistan, there is a panel from room 1, sector 21, representing a series of scenes moving from right to left where it is possible to recognize the same person first in the act of checking a golden egg and later killing the animal in order to get more eggs, only to understand the stupidity of his idea at the very end of the sequence.

Towner Gallery

In 1962, the Rector of Berwick Church gave over 35 studies and sketches for the Berwick Church murals.

Viratnagar

The town has a number of Mughal structures, including a Chhatri (cenotaph) with some of the earliest surviving murals in Rajasthan, and a lodge where the Mughal emperor Akbar hunted and stayed overnight on his yearly pilgrimage to Ajmer.

Wini Smart

Her interest in history has resulted in painting many historic murals, illustrating local histories, and she is co-founder of Cranberry House, a historical museum on Great Cranberry Island, Maine.

Yves Brayer

He also created murals and wall ornamentations, tapestry cartoons, maquettes, sets, and costumes for the Théâtre Français and the operas of Paris, Amsterdam, Nice, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux, and Avignon.


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