Art form - Fresco

The Creation of Adam
The Creation of Adam
Works of Art

The Creation of Adam is a fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo circa 1511. It illustrates the Biblical story from the Book of Genesis in which God the Father...

Sistine Chapel ceiling
Sistine Chapel ceiling
Works of Art

The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is one of the most renowned artworks of the High Renaissance. The ceiling is that of the large Sistine Chapel built...

Assumption of the Virgin
Assumption of the Virgin
Works of Art

The Assumption of the Virgin depicts the Assumption of Mary. This highly influential fresco by the Italian Late Renaissance artist Antonio da Correggio decorates the dome of the...

The Last Judgment
The Last Judgment
Works of Art

The Last Judgment is a mural by Michelangelo on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. It took nine years to complete. Michelangelo began working on it three decades after...

The School of Athens
The School of Athens
Works of Art

The School of Athens, or Scuola di Atene in Italian, is one of the most famous paintings by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted between 1510 and 1511 as a part of...

Disputation of the Holy Sacrament
Disputation of the Holy Sacrament
Works of Art

The Disputation of the Sacrament , or Disputa, is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted between 1509 and 1510 as only the first part...

The Parnassus
The Parnassus
Works of Art

The Parnassus is a painting by the Italian renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted in 1511 as the third part, after La disputa and The School of Athens, of Raphael's commission to...

The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple
The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple
Works of Art

The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple is a painting of the Italian renaissance painter Raphael. It was painted between 1511 and 1512 as part of Raphael's commission to decorate with...

Deliverance of Saint Peter
Deliverance of Saint Peter
Works of Art

The Deliverance of Saint Peter is a painting by the Italian renaissance artist Raphael and his assistant Giulio Romano. It was painted in 1514 as part of Raphael's commission to decorate...

The Baptism of Constantine
The Baptism of Constantine
Works of Art

The Baptism of Constantine is a painting by assistants of the Italian renaissance artist Raphael. It was most likely painted by Gianfrancesco Penni, between 1517 and 1524. After the master's...

The Vision of the Cross
The Vision of the Cross
Works of Art

The Vision of the Cross is a painting made between 1520 and 1524 by assistants of the Italian renaissance artist Raphael. After the master's death in 1520, Gianfrancesco Penni, Giulio Romano...

The Fire in the Borgo
The Fire in the Borgo
Works of Art

The Fire in the Borgo is a painting by the workshop of the Italian renaissance artist Raphael. Though it is assumed that Raphael did make the designs for the complex composition, the fresco...

The Mass at Bolsena
The Mass at Bolsena
Works of Art

The Mass at Bolsena is a painting by the Italian renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted in 1514 as part of Raphael's commission to decorate with frescoes the rooms that are now known as...

The Coronation of Charlemagne
The Coronation of Charlemagne
Works of Art

The Coronation of Charlemagne is a painting by the workshop of the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. Though it is believed that Raphael did make the designs for the composition, the fresco...

The Battle of Ostia
The Battle of Ostia
Works of Art

The Battle of Ostia is a painting by the workshop of the Italian renaissance artist Raphael. The painting was part of Raphael's commission to decorate the rooms that are now known as the...

The Oath of Leo III
The Oath of Leo III
Works of Art

The Oath of Leo III is a painting by the workshop of the Italian renaissance artist Raphael. The painting was part of Raphael's commission to decorate the rooms that are now known as the...

Sibyls
Sibyls
Works of Art

The Sybils, or Sybils receiving instruction from Angels, is a painting by the Italian renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted in 1514, as part of a commission Raphael had received from...

The Meeting of Leo the Great and Attila
The Meeting of Leo the Great and Attila
Works of Art

The Meeting of Leo I and Attila is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael and his assistant Giulio Romano. It was painted in 1514 as part of Raphael's commission to decorate the...

The Donation of Constantine
The Donation of Constantine
Works of Art

The Donation of Constantine or Donation of Rome is a painting by assistants of the Italian renaissance artist Raphael. It was most likely painted by Gianfrancesco Penni or Giulio Romano...

The Conversion of Saul
The Conversion of Saul
Works of Art

The Conversion of Saul is a painting attributed to the Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti . It is housed in the Cappella Paolina, Vatican Palace, in the Vatican City.

Crucifixion of St. Peter
Crucifixion of St. Peter
Works of Art

The Crucifixion of St. Peter is a fresco painting by the Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti . It is housed in the Cappella Paolina, Vatican Palace, in the Vatican City....

The Battle of the Milvian Bridge
The Battle of the Milvian Bridge
Works of Art

The Battle of the Milvian Bridge, or The Battle at Pons Milvius, is a fresco in one of the rooms that are now known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. The...

Crossing of the Red Sea
Crossing of the Red Sea
Works of Art

The Crossing of the Red Sea is a fresco painting by the Italian artist Agnolo di Cosimo, known as Bronzino, finished in 1541-1542. It is housed in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. The fresco...

Madonna del Parto
Madonna del Parto
Works of Art

The Madonna del Parto is a fresco painting by the Italian Renaissance master Piero della Francesca, finished around 1460. It is housed in the Museo della Madonna del Parto Monterchi...

Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood
Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood
Works of Art

The Funerary Monument (or Equestrian Monument) to Sir John Hawkwood is a fresco by Paolo Uccello, commemorating English condottiero John Hawkwood, commissioned in 1436 for Florence's...

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