Stunning in their scale, colour and detail, frescoes can give us a fascinating glimpse of ancient civilisations. Every now and then, a new fresco is discovered which sheds further light onto how ...

It's an alternative to the traditional technique of gently knocking on the plaster with knuckles or small mallets, listening ...

Contradicting the name of the site at which the works were discovered, these Fourth Style frescoes, associated with the period between 62–79 CE, aren’t exactly chaste. Perhaps unsurprisingly ...

The room, with its frescoes and mosaics, was part of “an elegant lifestyle” of its ancient owners, according to the site.

The stunning frescoes are attributed to Italian Baroque painter Carlo Maratta and his pupils, Girolamo Troppa and François ...

The modern world has never seen more than a faded hint of the magnificent frescoes executed by Raphael for the Vatican Palace’s second-floor loggia. For three centuries after they were painted, ...

Rosy-cheeked cherubs surrounded by blues, reds and golds have lost none of their brilliance in 17th-century frescoes discovered behind a false ceiling at the Villa Farnesina palace in Rome.

The home was buried beneath the ash and debris that wiped out Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. but elaborate frescoes painted onto its interior walls have remained largely intact. The ...