Fresco

October 8, 2014
Fra Filippo Lippi died on 8 October 1469 while working on frescoes for the cathedral of Spoleto.

September 28, 2014
Giusto di Giovanni de’ Menabuoi died on 28 September 1390, according to a tomb inscription in Padua Baptistery, which he decorated with frescoes starting in 1375.

September 24, 2014
The classical scholar and poet Angelo Ambrogini, known as Poliziano, died on 24 September 1494 at the age of 40.

September 1, 2014
A cycle of medieval frescoes not seen in centuries is now open to the public.

August 11, 2014
thegetty : Hesione who?

August 5, 2014
The Italian painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, known as Sodoma , was documented at work in the cloister of Monte Oliveto Maggiore on this day in 1505.

June 25, 2014
On this day in 1504, Sodoma completed his fresco project for the refectory (monastic dining room) of Santa Anna in Camprena, an Olivetan convent near the Tuscan town of Pienza.

June 22, 2014
thegetty : Prep for a Roman meal served up in A.D. 50.

May 27, 2014
This afternoon in Pisa Jean Cadogan will present “ Maravigliose istorie : The Mural Decoration of the Camposanto in Pisa” as the the annual IAS/Kress Lecture .

January 22, 2014
esperanzapinatelli : Giotto, Vault of Scrovegni Chapel, Padua (Fresco, 1305) detail