When electrician Davide Renzoni was called out to Rome’s Villa Farnesina last year ... Sealed away above the ceiling were three massive 17th-century frescoes that remained untouched by the ...

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 ...

A recently excavated Roman fresco from a house dating to the end of the first century B.C. depicts a human figure on a vibrant red background. It is among the highest quality wall paintings ever ...

A scholar of early Greek classics explains what the myth of the weapon-carrying god of love, Cupid, a child of the gods of love and war, conveys about the pleasures and dangers of desire.

The archaeologists unearthed two tubs that, among other things, were used to process the colorful pigments while the palace was under construction. Presumably from within the tubs, they recovered an ...

The museum’s experts dated it to around A.D. 60, making this one of the earliest Roman frescoes yet found in London. At nearly ten feet long and more than six feet high, it’s also one of the ...

Fresco Fish has completed its move from the New Hartford Shopping Center to its new location at 8483 Seneca Turnpike, bringing with it the same offerings of fresh imported seafood, as well as a new ...