frescoes

Examples of frescoes in the following topics:

• Fresco

  • Fresco painting, derived from the Italian word "fresco" meaning "fresh," is a technique that has been used since antiquity, executed on plaster walls and ceilings.
  • Buon fresco is considered to be more stable than secco fresco because the pigment becomes embedded within the wall or ceiling itself.
  • It has been noted that secco fresco was commonly used over top of buon fresco murals to repair them or to make changes to the original.
  • The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci is an example of a fresco.
  • An example of a fresco mural by the artist Diego Rivera, Mexico City.

• Painting in Southeast Asia

  • Southeast Asian painting from 300-600 CE mostly took the form of frescoes and reflected Hindu and Buddhist themes.
  • The few examples of painting that do survive are frescoes on cave or temple walls.
  • Frescoes, usually executed on cave temple or monastery walls, would have been the most common form of Southeast Asian painting.
  • The most famous surviving examples of Southeast Asian-style frescoes are to be found in the rock fortress and palace ruin of Sigiriya in Sri Lanka.
  • These frescoes are reminiscent of the contemporary frescoes in the Ajanta Caves in India, which are masterpieces of Buddhist religious art and depict figures from the Buddhist pantheon and scenes from the Jataka tales.

• Minoan Painting

  • The Minoans decorated their palace complexes and homes with fresco wall painting.
  • Buon fresco is a form of painting where the pigment is painted onto a wet limestone plaster.
  • A fresco found on a upper story of the palace has come to be known as Bull Leaping.
  • The frescoes on Akrotiri were preserved by the blanketing volcanic ash.
  • This panoramic fresco depicts the Minoans as a highly developed civilization.

• Renaissance Painting: Masaccio

  • These are evident in the cycle of frescoes he executed alongside Masolino for the Brancacci Chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence.
  • The frescoes in their entirety represent the story of human sin and redemption from the fall of Adam and Eve to the works of St.
  • Giotto's influence is evident in Masaccio's frescoes, particularly in the weight and solidity of his figures and the vividness of their expressions.
  • The Tribute Money, fresco in the Brancacci Chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, 1425.
  • The Tribute Money is one of Masaccio's most famous frescoes from the Brancacci Chapel.

• Painting

  • Early Christians used the same artistic media as the surrounding pagan culture, which included fresco, mosaics, sculpture, and manuscript illumination.
  • Late classical style included a proportional portrayal of the human body and impressionistic presentation of space; this style is seen in early Christian frescos, such as those in the catacombs of Rome.
  • This fish and loaves fresco, iconography particular to Christians and representative of the Eucharist, is found in the Catacombs of San Callisto.

• Mantua

  • Once the shell of the Palazzo del Te was completed, for ten years a team of plasterers, carvers, and fresco painters labored, until barely a surface in any of the loggias or salons remained undecorated.
  • Under Giulio Romano's direction, local decorative painters such as Benedetto Pagni and Rinaldo Mantovano worked extensively on the palace frescoes.
  • These frescoes remain today, and are the most remarkable feature of the Palazzo.
  • This fresco of the powerful Gonzaga head of family resides in the Stanza degli Sposi of Palazzo Ducale.
  • The Fall of the Giants is one of the most important frescoes of the Palazzo del Te.

• Carolingian Painting in the Early European Middle Ages

  • Various forms of Carolingian artwork consist of mosaics and frescos which reached a pinnacle of production under the reign of Charlemagne.
  • On the other hand, various forms of Carolingian painting consist of both mosaics and frescos that reached a pinnacle of production under the reign of Charlemagne.
  • It was destroyed later in the century, but contained multiple Carolignian frescos of the Seven liberal arts, the Four Seasons, and the Mappa Mundi.
  • Art historians have found that there were numerous other Carolingian frescos in churches and palaces that have since been nearly completely lost.

• Painting

  • Fresco painting at Pompeii provides examples of the ingenuity of the artist and the complexity of the scenes that interrelate through themes.
  • A fresco from Pompeii that depicts the event has also survived.
  • The fresco depicts the Pompeiian amphitheatre, with its distinctive exterior staircase, as well as an awning, the velarium.
  • While the cult aspects of the ritual are unknown, the fresco demonstrates the ingenuity and inventiveness of Roman painters.
  • Fresco scene of the Sacrifice of Iphigenia.

• The Chora Church in Constantinople

  • Inside the church is a set of frescos and mosaics that survived the church's conversion into a mosque in the sixteenth century and the plastering over of the Christian imagery.
  • The most important of these frescos is the Anastasis, a representation of the Last Judgment, in the apse of the eastern bay.
  • The image is the culmination of the parecclesion's fresco cycle and one of the most impressive Late Byzantine paintings.
  • The images of Christ in the frescoes and mosaics of the Chora Church depict an authoritative bearded man who occupies the role of both savior and judge.
  • Fresco. 1310-1320.

• The Neopalatial Period

  • Bulls are often depicted in mural frescoes and many bull figurines and rhytons have been excavated .
  • Frescoes also depict these bull-leaping scenes; abstracted bull-horn shapes may have been used in Minoan architecture.
  • Fragment of a Minoan fresco depicting a flying fish.