Created more than a century before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., the wall paintings provide rare insights into secret rituals conducted in the Roman city ...

Today, the term fresco rather carelessly applies to almost all kinds of wall painting. Contemporary artists rarely use it, preferring more modern and durable materials. However, fresco painting ...

The wall painting, which is nearly life-size ... carrying swords in their hands and slaughtered goats on their shoulders. The fresco also depicts young satyrs, part-goat and part-human creatures ...

Traditionally, checking for damage was a manual job, but a combination of diagnostic technologies used in the restoration of the Brancacci Chapel offers much greater precision ...

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 ...

The eight-mile wall of art was created by the first humans of ... and the sheer size of the fresco. The team of British-Colombian researchers drove for two hours to reach the eight-mile wall ...