Experts say the frescoes on the walls of an ancient banquet hall in Pompeii are among the finest ever found in the city destroyed by a volcano almost 2,000 years ago.

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 4 c. BC Greek fresco bearing striking similarities to the traditional portrayals of the Virgin Mary has been discovered in ...

In 1933, the Ebell of Los Angeles commissioned frescoes by renowned muralist Maxine Albro. Two years later — after ...

A fresco is a painting technique in which the colours are quickly applied to a fresh wet layer of plaster, typically on a ceiling or wall. As the plaster dries, the colours are absorbed and fixed ...

Newly discovered frescoes in the House of Thiassus ... scientists were able to identify a broad palette of colors used in Roman mural painting. It was discovered that artists of the time mixed natural ...