Fresco Collection (#95)

Italy, Piedmont Region, Alessandria province, fresco in chapel at Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta
Italy - Piedmont Region - Serralunga di Crea (Alessandria province) - Sacro Monte di Crea (Sacred Mount of Crea, UNESCO World Heritage List, 2003) - Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta, chapel. Fresco

Italy, Tivoli, Villa d Este, frescoes and stuccos on ceiling in Room of the Labours of Hercules
Italy - Lazio Region - Tivoli (Rome province) - Villa d Este (UNESCO World Heritage List, 2001). Noble Apartment, Room of the Labours of Hercules. Detail of frescoes and stuccos

Excavations at Pompei: Wall painting from the House of the Vetti showing cupids as goldsmiths, uncovered during the excavations. Pompei was destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD

Ramses II hunting in his chariot. After a fresco in the temple of Abu Simbel. From The Monuments of Egypt and Nubia (1832-1844) by Ippolito Rossellini (1800-1843) Italian Egyptologist

Copy of a fresco in the small Temple of Memnon (Amenhotep) at El Kab (Hillal - Nekheb), 1841. Nestor l Hote (1804-1842) French Egyptologist. Goddess Nekhbet in form of Vulture

Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro / Giovanni da Fiesole c1400-55) Italian painter. Virgin
Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro/Giovanni da Fiesole c1400-55) Italian painter. Virgin and Child with St Antony of Padua (with lily) and St Thomas Aquinas. Both saints in Dominican habit. Fresco

St Stephen Preaching (detail showing women listening). Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro/Giovanni da Fiesole c1400-55) Italian painter. Fresco. Chapel of Nicholas V, Vatican Palace

St Stephen Preaching. Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro / Giovanni da Fiesole
St Stephen Preaching. Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro/Giovanni da Fiesole c1400-55) Italian painter. Fresco. Chapel of Nicholas V, Vatican Palace

St Thomas Aquinas. Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro / Giovanni da Fiesole c1400-55)
St Thomas Aquinas. Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro/Giovanni da Fiesole c1400-55) Italian painter. Fresco, Chapel of Nicholas V, Vatican Palace

Virgin Mary with the Infant Jesus and Angels. Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro / Giovanni
Virgin Mary with the Infant Jesus and Angels. Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro/Giovanni da Fiesole c1400-55) Italian painter. Fresco

St Ambrose. Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro / Giovanni da Fiesole c1400-55) Italian painter
St Ambrose. Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro/Giovanni da Fiesole c1400-55) Italian painter. Fresco. Chapel of Nicholas V, Vatican Palace

Stoning of St Stephen, Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro / Giovanni da Fiesole c1400-55)
Stoning of St Stephen, Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro/Giovanni da Fiesole c1400-55) Italian painter. Fresco, Chapel of Nicholas V, Vatican Palace

St Stephen giving Alms in Rome. Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro / Giovanni da Fiesole
St Stephen giving Alms in Rome. Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro/Giovanni da Fiesole c1400-55) Italian painter. Fresco, Chapel of Nicholas V, Vatican Palace

St Stephen Preaching (detail). Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro / Giovanni da
St Stephen Preaching (detail). Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro/Giovanni da Fiesole c1400-55) Italian painter. Fresco, Chapel of Nicholas V, Vatican Palace

Virgin and Child with St Francis and St John the Evangelist: 1320-25. Pietro Lorenzetti (c1280-1248). Fresco, Lower Church, San Francesco, Assisi

Anastasis, fresco in the parekklesion of Church of Christ in Chora (Kariye Museum) Constantinople (Istanbu), Turkey (c.1310-1320)

St Martins Dream. Fresco, Basilica of St Francis, Assisi, Italy. St Martin of Tours (c316-397), Hungarian-born saint. Gave half his coat to a beggar in Amiens on a winters night

Army of Muhammed IX, (Nasrid Sultan of Granada), at the Battle of Higueruela 1431. Shown as part of a series of fresco paintings by Fabrizio Castello, Orazio Cambiaso and Lazzaro Tavarone

Juan de Borgona (c. 1470 - 1534). High Renaissance painter born in the Duchy of Burgundy
Juan de Borgona (c.1470 - 1534). High Renaissance painter born in the Duchy of Burgundy. Active in Spain from about 1495 to 1534

Giotto di Bondone Fresco cycle on the life of St. Francis of Assisi

Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431 - 1506) Italian Renaissance painter. The Court of Mantua 1471-74. Fresco Camera degli Sposi Ducal Palace, Mantua, Italy). At the left, Ludovico II Gonzaga

Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims on their journey. Engraving after a painted fresco by William Blake 1810. William Blake (1757-1827) English painter, printer and mystic

Fresco Centrepiece in the Museum at Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. after Theodore Grafaa
Fresco Centrepiece in the Museum at Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. after Theodore Grafa

Cyprus, Troodos Mountains, Bizantine church of Panayia tis Asinou, St Nicholas, bishop of Mira, Fresco
Cyprus - Troodos Mountains. Bizantine Church of Panayia tis Asinou (UNESCOs World Heritage Site, 1985, 2001). 12th century. St. Nicholas, bishop of Mira. Fresco 1105-06

Bulgaria, Nesebar, Church of St. Stephen or New Bishopric (New Metropolitan Church), fresco
Bulgaria - Black Sea coast - Nesebur. Ancient Nesebur. UNESCO World Heritage List, 1983. New Metropolitan Church, 10th-11th century. Fresco

Bulgaria, Black Sea, Nessebar, Wall painting at St Stephens church
Bulgaria. Ancient city of Nessebar. UNESCO World Heritage List, 1983. Church of St. Stephen or New Metropolitan Church, 10th-11th century. Wall painting

Bulgaria, Black Sea, Nessebar, fresco at St Stephens church
Bulgaria - Black Sea - Nessebar (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1983). St. Stephens Church (Sveti Stefan) or the New Bishopric (Nova Mitropoliya) (10th-11th century). Fresco detail

Italy, Tivoli, Villa d Este, frescoes on ceiling of Room of the Labours of Hercules
Italy - Lazio Region - Tivoli (Rome province) - Villa d Este (UNESCO World Heritage List, 2001). Noble Apartment, Room of the Labours of Hercules

Facade of Saint Marks Basilica, Venice, Italy
Facade of the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark (known as Saint Marks Basilica), Venice, Italy. An outstanding example of Byzantine architecture

Italy, Venice, Doges Palace, Detail of Scala d Oro
Detail of the Scala d Oro in the Doges Palace, Venice. Built in Venetian Gothic style the palace was the residence of the Doge of Venice (the supreme authority of the rublic of Venice)

St. Nicholas Church interior, Prague, Czech Republic, Europe

Ancient painted Roman fresco in Herculaneum, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Campania, Italy, Europe

Andahuaylillas church, Peru, South America

A soviet mikoyan-gurevich mig-17 jet fighter (nato designation: fresco)

The interior of L Eglise Saint Roch in Paris, France, Europe

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