However, the most significant era in the history of fresco painting began in Renaissance Italy. Due to the development of the art industry and comfortable climate, many Italian frescoes from that ...

The drawing was done in preparation for the Wedding Feast of Cupid and Psyche in Rome’s Villa Farnesina, and the three graces can be found in the fresco’s upper-righthand corner. Alongside the ...

A new exhibition opening next month at the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia, explores the Italian Renaissance master's preparations for his famous ceiling frescoes ...

If you go to Italy, or to the Italian Renaissance galleries of an art museum, you may find yourself ... a tapestry or fresco, the answer is almost always that the works were first conceived ...