The Renaissance artist’s paintings in the Italian town’s San Brizio Chapel comprise dynamic, monumental and fiercely ...

In 1933, the Ebell of Los Angeles commissioned frescoes by renowned muralist Maxine Albro. Two years later — after ...

A woman’s face emerges from the many exposed layers of plaster. The cheeks have lost their glow. The crack that cuts through ...

A fresco is a painting technique in which the colours are quickly applied to a fresh wet layer of plaster, typically on a ceiling or wall. As the plaster dries, the colours are absorbed and fixed ...

After 90 years, forgotten frescoes by Maxine Albro were recently discovered beneath nine layers of paint in the historic ...

Church walls entirely covered with colourful fresco paintings - a feature unique to the region of Moldavia in Romania. Moldavia has long been called the land where God lives. Many of the churches have ...

can be attributed to the Second Style of Pompeiian painting, and its discovery comes over a century after a similar fresco was found in the ancient city’s Villa of the Mysteries. The newly ...

Albro's Ebell frescoes were indeed bright and modern — having been created in the style recently popularized by Rivera — and, like many great works of art throughout the ages, her creations ...

The frescoes are examples of the painting tradition of trompe-l'oeil, an optical illusion that tricks us into thinking we're gazing out onto 3D pastoral scenes through broken stone walls.

The fresco was created a hundred years after the painting of the White Angel in Mileševa, but here there is no copying or use of any patterns and schemes. The master did it according to his ...

Thursday, March 6, the Muscarelle Museum of Art unveiled its new exhibition, “Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine,” to the public. The exhibition celebrates Michelangelo’s famous paintings on the ...