While frescoes did not reach their height of popularity until the High Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the art was practiced long before. The first frescoes were ...

Fresco painting, a technique that dates back to antiquity, involves applying dry pigments to wet plaster, creating stunning ...

Rosy-cheeked cherubs surrounded by blues, reds and golds have lost none of their brilliance in 17th-century frescoes ...

The naked woman, who is wearing only a blue headscarf, was brought to life by the Renaissance figure in his iconic ... cancer as far back as 1508 when Michelangelo painted the fresco, a mural painting ...