Fresco, the Glossary
Fresco (or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster.[1]
Table of Contents
220 relations: Aegean civilization, Aegean Sea, Ajanta Caves, Alkali, Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Ancient Greece, Andrea Mantegna, Andrea Pozzo, Annibale Carracci, Antioch, Arbore, Arezzo, Armamalai Cave, Art Journal (College Art Association journal), Aspergillus versicolor, Assisi, Azurite, Bachkovo Monastery, Badami cave temples, Bagh Caves, Barcelona, Baroque, Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Binder (material), Bodhisattva, Boyana Church, Brancacci Chapel, Brihadisvara Temple, Bronze Age, Bull-Leaping Fresco, Buon fresco, Butterworth-Heinemann, Calcination, Calcium carbonate, Calcium hydroxide, Calcium oxide, Camera degli Sposi, Cappadocia, Carbon dioxide, Carbonatation, Castelseprio (archaeological park), Catalonia, Château St. Gerlach, Chola Empire, Church frescos in Denmark, Church murals in Sweden, Church of Saint George, Sofia, ... Expand index (170 more) »
- Fresco painting
- Plastering
- Wallcoverings
Aegean civilization
Aegean civilization is a general term for the Bronze Age civilizations of Greece around the Aegean Sea.
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Aegean Sea
The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia.
Ajanta Caves
The Ajanta Caves are 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments dating from the second century BCE to about 480 CE in Aurangabad district (a.k.a. Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar district) of Maharashtra state in India.
Alkali
In chemistry, an alkali (from lit) is a basic, ionic salt of an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal.
Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power
The Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power is a fresco by the Italian Baroque painter Pietro da Cortona, filling the large ceiling of the grand salon of the Palazzo Barberini in Rome, Italy.
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Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Ambrogio Lorenzetti (– 9 June 1348) or Ambruogio Laurati was an Italian painter of the Sienese school.
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
Andrea Mantegna
Andrea Mantegna (September 13, 1506) was an Italian Renaissance painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini.
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Andrea Pozzo
Andrea Pozzo (Latinized version: Andreas Puteus; 30 November 1642 – 31 August 1709) was an Italian Jesuit brother, Baroque painter, architect, decorator, stage designer, and art theoretician.
Annibale Carracci
Annibale Carracci (November 3, 1560 – July 15, 1609) was an Italian painter and instructor, active in Bologna and later in Rome.
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Antioch
Antioch on the Orontes (Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou)Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου; or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Δάφνῃ "Antioch on Daphne"; or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ Μεγάλη "Antioch the Great"; Antiochia ad Orontem; Անտիոք Antiokʽ; ܐܢܛܝܘܟܝܐ Anṭiokya; אנטיוכיה, Anṭiyokhya; أنطاكية, Anṭākiya; انطاکیه; Antakya.
Arbore
Arbore (Deutsch-Arbora) is a commune located in Suceava County, Bukovina, northeastern Romania.
Arezzo
Arezzo is a city and comune in Italy and the capital of the province of the same name located in Tuscany.
Armamalai Cave
Armamalai Cave is known for its Indian cave paintings.
Art Journal (College Art Association journal)
Art Journal, established in New York City in 1941, is a publication of the College Art Association of America (referred to as "CAA").
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Aspergillus versicolor
Aspergillus versicolor is a slow-growing species of filamentous fungus commonly found in damp indoor environments and on food products.
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Assisi
Assisi (also,; from Asisium; Central Italian: Ascesi) is a town and comune of Italy in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio.
Azurite
Azurite is a soft, deep-blue copper mineral produced by weathering of copper ore deposits.
Bachkovo Monastery
The Bachkovo Monastery of the Dormition of the Theotokos (Бачковски манастир "Успение Богородично", Bachkovski manastir, პეტრიწონის მონასტერი, Petritsonis Monasteri), archaically the Petritsoni Monastery or Monastery of the Mother of God Petritzonitissa is a major Eastern Orthodox monastery in Southern Bulgaria.
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Badami cave temples
The Badami cave temples are a complex of Budhist,Hindu and Jain cave temples located in Badami, a town in the Bagalkot district in northern part of Karnataka, India.
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Bagh Caves
The Bagh Caves are a group of nine rock-cut monuments, situated among the southern slopes of the Vindhyas in Bagh town of Dhar district in Madhya Pradesh state in central India.
Barcelona
Barcelona is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain.
Baroque
The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.
Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe
The Basilica of Santa María de Guadalupe, officially called Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Santa María de Guadalupe (in English: Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe) is a basilica of the Catholic Church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary in her invocation of Our Lady of Guadalupe, located at the foot of the Hill of Tepeyac in the Gustavo A.
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Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi
The Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi (Basilica di San Francesco d'Assisi; Basilica Sancti Francisci Assisiensis) is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town in the Umbria region in central Italy, where Saint Francis was born and died.
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Beaux-Arts de Paris
The, formally the, is a French grande école whose primary mission is to provide high-level fine arts education and training.
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Binder (material)
A binder or binding agent is any material or substance that holds or draws other materials together to form a cohesive whole mechanically, chemically, by adhesion or cohesion.
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Bodhisattva
In Buddhism, a bodhisattva (English:; translit) or bodhisatva is a person who is on the path towards bodhi ('awakening') or Buddhahood.
Boyana Church
The Boyana Church (Боянска църква, Boyanska tsărkva) is a medieval Bulgarian Orthodox church situated on the outskirts of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, in the Boyana quarter.
Brancacci Chapel
The Brancacci Chapel (in Italian, "Cappella dei Brancacci") is a chapel in the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence, central Italy.
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Brihadisvara Temple
Brihadishvara Temple, called Rajarajesvaram by its builder, and known locally as Thanjai Periya Kovil and Peruvudaiyar Kovil, is a Shaivite Hindu temple built in a Chola architectural style located on the south bank of the Cauvery river in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.
Bull-Leaping Fresco
The Bull-Leaping Fresco is the most completely restored of several stucco panels originally sited on the upper-story portion of the east wall of the Minoan palace at Knossos in Crete.
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Buon fresco
true fresh is a fresco painting technique in which alkaline-resistant pigments, ground in water, are applied to wet plaster. Fresco and Buon fresco are fresco painting, painting materials and painting techniques.
Butterworth-Heinemann
Butterworth–Heinemann is a British publishing company specialised in professional information and learning materials for higher education and professional training, in printed and electronic forms.
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Calcination
Calcination is thermal treatment of a solid chemical compound (e.g. mixed carbonate ores) whereby the compound is raised to high temperature without melting under restricted supply of ambient oxygen (i.e. gaseous O2 fraction of air), generally for the purpose of removing impurities or volatile substances and/or to incur thermal decomposition.
Calcium carbonate
Calcium carbonate is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.
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Calcium hydroxide
Calcium hydroxide (traditionally called slaked lime) is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula Ca(OH)2.
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Calcium oxide
Calcium oxide (formula: CaO), commonly known as quicklime or burnt lime, is a widely used chemical compound.
Camera degli Sposi
The Camera degli Sposi ("bridal chamber"), sometimes known as the Camera picta ("picture chamber"), is a room frescoed with illusionistic paintings by Andrea Mantegna in the Ducal Palace, Mantua, Italy.
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Cappadocia
Cappadocia (Kapadokya, Greek: Καππαδοκία) is a historical region in Central Anatolia, Turkey.
Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.
Carbonatation
Carbonatation is a chemical reaction in which calcium hydroxide reacts with carbon dioxide and forms insoluble calcium carbonate: The process of forming a carbonate is sometimes referred to as "carbonation", although this term usually refers to the process of dissolving carbon dioxide in water.
Castelseprio (archaeological park)
Castelseprio was the site of a Roman fort in antiquity, and a significant Lombard town in the early Middle Ages, before being destroyed and abandoned in 1287.
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Catalonia
Catalonia (Catalunya; Cataluña; Catalonha) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a nationality by its Statute of Autonomy.
Château St. Gerlach
Château St.
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Chola Empire
The Chola Empire, which is often referred to as the Imperial Cholas, was a medieval Indian, thalassocratic empire that was established by the Chola dynasty that rose to prominence during the middle of the ninth century and united southern India under their rule.
Church frescos in Denmark
Church frescos or church wall paintings (Danish: kalkmalerier) are to be found in some 600 churches across Denmark, no doubt representing the highest concentration of surviving church murals anywhere in the world.
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Church murals in Sweden
Church murals or church wall paintings are mostly medieval paintings found in several Swedish churches.
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Church of Saint George, Sofia
The Church of Saint George (translit) is a Late Antique red brick rotunda in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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Churches of Göreme
Göreme is a district of the Nevşehir Province in Turkey.
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Churches of Moldavia
The north of the Moldavia region in Romania preserves numerous religious buildings as a testimony of the Moldavian architectural style developed in the Principality of Moldavia starting from the 14th century.
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Clément Serveau
Henri Clément Serveau, also known as Clément-Serveau (29 June 1886 – 8 July 1972), was a French painter, designer, engraver and illustrator.
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Colegio de San Ildefonso, Cebu City
The Colegio de San Ildefonso was an educational institution run by the Society of Jesus in Cebu City, Philippines in the then Spanish Captaincy General of the Philippines.
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Crete
Crete (translit, Modern:, Ancient) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.
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Cyprus
Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (– September 14, 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and widely known and often referred to in English mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher.
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David Alfaro Siqueiros
David Alfaro Siqueiros (born José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros; December 29, 1896 – January 6, 1974) was a Mexican social realist painter, best known for his large public murals using the latest in equipment, materials and technique.
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David Novros
David Ross Novros (born 1941), is an American artist.
Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) was a prominent Mexican painter.
Dionisius
Dionisius (Dionisy; – 1503/1508), was a Russian icon painter who was one of the most important representatives of the Moscow school of icon painting at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries.
Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun 1308 and completed around 1321, shortly before the author's death.
Dogras
The Dogras or Dogra people, are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group living primarily in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and neighbouring Pakistan, consisting of the Dogri language speakers.
Dogri language
Dogri (Devanagari: label; Name Dogra Akkhar: 𑠖𑠵𑠌𑠤𑠮|label.
Dome
A dome is an architectural element similar to the hollow upper half of a sphere.
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Domenico di Michelino
Domenico di Michelino (1417–1491) was an Italian Renaissance painter who was born and died in Florence.
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Domenico Ghirlandaio
Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi (2 June 1448 – 11 January 1494), professionally known as Domenico Ghirlandaio (also spelt as Ghirlandajo), was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Florence.
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Ducal Palace, Mantua
The Palazzo Ducale di Mantova ("Ducal Palace") is a group of buildings in Mantua, Lombardy, northern Italy, built between the 14th and the 17th century mainly by the noble family of Gonzaga as their royal residence in the capital of their Duchy.
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Early Christian art and architecture
Early Christian art and architecture (or Paleochristian art) is the art produced by Christians, or under Christian patronage, from the earliest period of Christianity to, depending on the definition, sometime between 260 and 525.
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Eggs as food
Humans and their hominid relatives have consumed eggs for millions of years.
Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
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Ellora Caves
The Ellora Caves are a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Aurangabad district, Maharashtra, India (now renamed to Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar district).
Ephesus
Ephesus (Éphesos; Efes; may ultimately derive from Apaša) was a city in Ancient Greece on the coast of Ionia, southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey.
Etruscan art
Etruscan art was produced by the Etruscan civilization in central Italy between the 10th and 1st centuries BC.
Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne
The Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life) was held from 25 May to 25 November 1937 in Paris, France.
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Ferapontov Monastery
The Ferapontov Monastery (Ферапонтов монастырь), in the Vologda region of Russia, is considered one of the purest examples of Russian medieval art, a reason given by UNESCO for its inscription on the World Heritage List.
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Fernando Leal (artist)
Fernando Leal (February 26, 1896 – October 7, 1964) was one of the first painters to participate in the Mexican muralism movement starting in the 1920s.
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Florence
Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.
Florence Cathedral
Florence Cathedral (Duomo di Firenze), formally the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower (Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore), is the cathedral of Florence, Italy.
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Foujita Chapel
The chapel of Our Lady Queen of Peace, or Foujita Chapel, was constructed in 1965–1966 at Reims, France.
Fresco-secco
Fresco-secco (or a secco or fresco finto) is a wall painting technique where pigments mixed with an organic binder and/or lime are applied onto dry plaster. Fresco and fresco-secco are fresco painting and painting techniques.
Frida Kahlo
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.
Gambier Parry process
The Gambier Parry process is a development of the classical technique of fresco for painting murals, named for Thomas Gambier Parry. Fresco and Gambier Parry process are fresco painting and painting techniques.
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Gebel el-Arak Knife
The Gebel el-Arak Knife, also Jebel el-Arak Knife, is an ivory and flint knife dating from the Naqada II period of Egyptian prehistory (3500—3200 BC), showing Mesopotamian influence.
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Gerzeh culture
The Gerzeh culture, also called Naqada II, refers to the archaeological stage at Gerzeh (also Girza or Jirzah), a prehistoric Egyptian cemetery located along the west bank of the Nile.
Giotto
Giotto di Bondone (– January 8, 1337), known mononymously as Giotto and Latinised as Giottus, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (5 March 1696 – 27 March 1770), also known as Giambattista (or Gianbattista) Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.
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Giulio Romano
Giulio Pippi (– 1 November 1546), known as Giulio Romano (Jules Romain), was an Italian painter and architect.
Gračanica Monastery
The Gračanica Monastery (Manastir Gračanica,; Manastiri i Graçanicës) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located in Kosovo.
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Greek colonisation
Greek colonisation refers to the expansion of Archaic Greeks, particularly during the 8th–6th centuries BC, across the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea.
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Haveli
A haveli is a traditional townhouse, mansion, or manor house, in the Indian subcontinent, usually one with historical and architectural significance, and located in a town or city.
Herculaneum
Herculaneum was an ancient Roman town, located in the modern-day comune of Ercolano, Campania, Italy.
Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh ("Snow-laden Mountain Province") is a state in the northern part of India.
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Humor Monastery
Humor Monastery located in Mănăstirea Humorului, about 5 km north of the town of Gura Humorului, Romania.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
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Intonaco
Intonaco is an Italian term for the final, very thin layer of plaster on which a fresco is painted. Fresco and Intonaco are painting techniques and Plastering.
Investiture of Zimri-Lim
The Investiture of Zimri-Lim is a large colorful mural discovered at the Royal Palace of the ancient city-state of Mari in eastern Syria.
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Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
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Italian Renaissance painting
Italian Renaissance painting is the painting of the period beginning in the late 13th century and flourishing from the early 15th to late 16th centuries, occurring in the Italian Peninsula, which was at that time divided into many political states, some independent but others controlled by external powers.
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James Hyde (artist)
James Hyde (born 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American painter, sculptor and photographer who has worked in New York City since the early 1980s.
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Jammu
Jammu is a city in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region.
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Jataka tales
The Jātaka (Sanskrit for "Birth-Related" or "Birth Stories") are a voluminous body of literature native to the Indian subcontinent which mainly concern the previous births of Gautama Buddha in both human and animal form.
José Clemente Orozco
José Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883 – September 7, 1949) was a Mexican caricaturist and painter, who specialized in political murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and others.
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Kandyan period frescoes
Kandyan era frescoes are mural paintings created during the Kingdom of Kandy (1469–1815) in Sri Lanka, a time when kings gave a special place to arts and literature.
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Kashyapa I of Anuradhapura
Kashyapa I, also known as Kasyapa I or Kassapa I, was a king of Sri Lanka, who ruled the country from 473 to 495 CE.
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Kraków
(), also spelled as Cracow or Krakow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland.
La Fenice
Teatro La Fenice ("The Phoenix") is a historic opera house in Venice, Italy.
Lapis lazuli
Lapis lazuli, or lapis for short, is a deep-blue metamorphic rock used as a semi-precious stone that has been prized since antiquity for its intense color.
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.
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Lime kiln
A lime kiln is a kiln used for the calcination of limestone (calcium carbonate) to produce the form of lime called quicklime (calcium oxide).
Lime plaster
Lime plaster is a type of plaster composed of sand, water, and lime, usually non-hydraulic hydrated lime (also known as slaked lime, high calcium lime or air lime). Fresco and lime plaster are Plastering.
Limestone
Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.
List of Aegean frescos
This is a list of Minoan, Mycenaean, and related frescos and quasi-frescos (not completed before the plaster dried) found at Bronze Age archaeological sites on islands and in and around the shores of the Aegean Sea and other relevant places in the Eastern Mediterranean region.
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Liturgy
Liturgy is the customary public ritual of worship performed by a religious group.
Luca Signorelli
Luca Signorelli (– 16 October 1523) was an Italian Renaissance painter from Cortona, in Tuscany, who was noted in particular for his ability as a draftsman and his use of foreshortening.
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Magna Graecia
Magna Graecia is a term that was used for the Greek-speaking areas of Southern Italy, in the present-day Italian regions of Calabria, Apulia, Basilicata, Campania and Sicily; these regions were extensively populated by Greek settlers starting from the 8th century BC.
Mahabharata
The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.
Mantua
Mantua (Mantova; Lombard and Mantua) is a comune (municipality) in the Italian region of Lombardy, and capital of the province of the same name.
Mari, Syria
Mari (Cuneiform:, ma-riki, modern Tell Hariri; تل حريري) was an ancient Semitic city-state in modern-day Syria.
Masaccio
Masaccio (December 21, 1401 – summer 1428), born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, was a Florentine artist who is regarded as the first great Italian painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance.
Master of Animals
The Master of Animals, Lord of Animals, or Mistress of the Animals is a motif in ancient art showing a human between and grasping two confronted animals.
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Meaux
Meaux is a commune on the river Marne in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in the metropolitan area of Paris, France.
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Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.
Mexican muralism
Mexican muralism refers to the art project initially funded by the Mexican government in the immediate wake of the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) to depict visions of Mexico's past, present, and future, transforming the walls of many public buildings into didactic scenes designed to reshape Mexicans' understanding of the nation's history.
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Mexico City
Mexico City (Ciudad de México,; abbr.: CDMX; Central Nahuatl:,; Otomi) is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America.
Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance.
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Mileševa Monastery
The Mileševa Monastery (Manastir Mileševa, or) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located near Prijepolje, in southwest Serbia.
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Minoan art
Minoan art is the art produced by the Bronze Age Aegean Minoan civilization from about 3000 to 1100 BC, though the most extensive and finest survivals come from approximately 2300 to 1400 BC.
Moldavia
Moldavia (Moldova, or Țara Moldovei, literally "The Country of Moldavia"; in Romanian Cyrillic: Молдова or Цара Мѡлдовєй) is a historical region and former principality in Central and Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester River.
Moldovița Monastery
The Moldovița Monastery (Romanian: Mânăstirea Moldovița) is a Romanian Orthodox monastery situated in the commune of Vatra Moldoviței, Suceava County, Moldavia, Romania.
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Mural
A mural is any piece of graphic artwork that is painted or applied directly to a wall, ceiling or other permanent substrate.
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Musée Carnavalet
The Musée Carnavalet in Paris is dedicated to the history of the city.
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Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (in full the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris) or MAM Paris, is a major municipal museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art of the 20th and 21st centuries, including monumental murals by Raoul Dufy, Gaston Suisse, and Henri Matisse.
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Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
The ("National Art Museum of Catalonia"), abbreviated as MNAC, is a museum of Catalan visual art located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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Nekhen
Nekhen (nḫn), also known as Hierakonpolis (Hierákōn pólis; either: City of the Hawk, or City of the Falcon, a reference to Horus; lit) was the religious and political capital of Upper Egypt at the end of prehistoric Egypt (3200–3100 BC) and probably also during the Early Dynastic Period (3100–2686 BC).
Oil painting
Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder.
Orvieto
Orvieto is a city and comune in the Province of Terni, southwestern Umbria, Italy, situated on the flat summit of a large butte of volcanic tuff.
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Padua
Padua (Padova; Pàdova, Pàdoa or Pàoa) is a city and comune (municipality) in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital of the province of Padua.
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Paestum
Paestum was a major ancient Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, in Magna Graecia.
Palazzo Barberini
The Palazzo Barberini (Barberini Palace) is a 17th-century palace in Rome, facing the Piazza Barberini in Rione Trevi.
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Palazzo del Te
i, or simply i, is a palace in the suburbs of Mantua, Italy.
Palazzo Farnese
Palazzo Farnese or Farnese Palace is one of the most important High Renaissance palaces in Rome.
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Palazzo Pubblico
The Palazzo Pubblico (town hall) is a palace in Siena, Tuscany, central Italy.
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Piero della Francesca
Piero della Francesca (– 12 October 1492) was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.
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Pietro da Cortona
Pietro da Cortona (1 November 1596 or 159716 May 1669) was an Italian Baroque painter and architect.
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Pietro Perugino
Pietro Perugino (born Pietro Vannucci or Pietro Vanucci; – 1523), an Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school, developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance.
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Pigment
A pigment is a powder used to add color or change visual appearance. Fresco and pigment are painting materials.
Pisa
Pisa is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea.
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Plaster
Plaster is a building material used for the protective or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements. Fresco and Plaster are Plastering and Wallcoverings.
Pomona College
Pomona College is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California.
Pompeian Styles
The Pompeian Styles are four periods which are distinguished in ancient Roman mural painting.
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Pompeii
Pompeii was an ancient city in what is now the comune (municipality) of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of Italy.
Prometheus (Orozco)
Prometheus (Prometeo) is a fresco by Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco depicting the Greek Titan Prometheus stealing fire from the heavens to give to humans.
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Qusayr 'Amra
Qusayr 'Amra or Quseir Amra, sometimes also named Qasr Amra, is the best-known of the desert castles located in present-day eastern Jordan.
Rajaraja Cholan
Rajaraja Cholan is a 1973 Indian Tamil-language historical biographical film directed by A. P. Nagarajan and written by Aru Ramanathan.
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Ramayana
The Ramayana (translit-std), also known as Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other being the Mahabharata.
Raphael
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.
Raphael Rooms
The four Raphael Rooms (Stanze di Raffaello.) form a suite of reception rooms in the Apostolic Palace, now part of the Vatican Museums, in Vatican City.
Reims
Reims (also spelled Rheims in English) is the most populous city in the French department of Marne, and the 12th most populous city in France.
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Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
Rila Monastery
The Monastery of Saint John of Rila, also known as Rila Monastery ("Sveti Ivan Rilski" (Рилски манастир „Свети Иван Рилски“), is the largest and most famous Eastern Orthodox monastery in Bulgaria. It is situated in the southwestern Rila Mountains, south of the capital Sofia in the deep valley of the Rilska River ("Rila River") at an elevation of above sea level, inside of Rila Monastery Nature Park.
Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
The Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo (Ивановски скални църкви, Ivanovski skalni tsarkvi) are a group of monolithic churches, chapels and monasteries hewn out of solid rock and completely different from other monastery complexes in Bulgaria, located near the village of Ivanovo, south of Rousse, on the high rocky banks of the Rusenski Lom, above the river.
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Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
Roman Tomb (Silistra)
The Roman Tomb of Silistra (Римска гробница в Силистра, Rimska grobnitsa v Silistra) is an Ancient Roman burial tomb in the town of Silistra in northeastern Bulgaria.
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Romanesque architecture
Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe that was predominant in the 11th and 12th centuries.
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Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.
Rossellini
Rossellini is a common Italian surname.
Rotunda of Saint Catherine
The Rotunda of St.
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Royal Palace of Mari
The Royal Palace of Mari was the royal residence of the rulers of the ancient kingdom of Mari in eastern Syria.
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Saint Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia
St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (Храм-паметник "Свети Александър Невски", Hram-pametnik "Sveti Aleksandar Nevski") is a Bulgarian Orthodox cathedral in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.
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Saint Nicholas
Saint Nicholas of Myra (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greek descent from the maritime city of Patara in Anatolia (in modern-day Antalya Province, Turkey) during the time of the Roman Empire.
Saint-Esprit, Paris
Saint-Esprit is a Catholic church in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France, in the southeast of the city.
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Sandro Botticelli
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (– May 17, 1510), better known as Sandro Botticelli or simply Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.
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Santa Maria Novella
Santa Maria Novella is a church in Florence, Italy, situated opposite, and lending its name to, the city's main railway station.
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Santiago Martínez Delgado
Santiago Martínez Delgado (1906–1954) was a Colombian painter, sculptor, art historian and writer.
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Santorini
Santorini (Santoríni), officially Thira (Thíra) and Classical Greek Thera, is a Greek island in the southern Aegean Sea, about southeast from its mainland.
School of Paris
The School of Paris (École de Paris) refers to the French and émigré artists who worked in Paris in the first half of the 20th century.
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Scrovegni Chapel
The Scrovegni Chapel (Cappella degli Scrovegni), also known as the Arena Chapel, is a small church, adjacent to the Augustinian monastery, the Monastero degli Eremitani in Padua, region of Veneto, Italy.
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Shaivism
Shaivism (translit-std) is one of the major Hindu traditions, which worships Shiva as the Supreme Being.
Siena
Siena (Sena Iulia) is a city in Tuscany, Italy.
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Sigiriya
Sigiriya or Sinhagiri (Lion Rock සීගිරිය, சிகிரியா/சிங்ககிரி, pronounced see-gi-ri-yə) is an ancient rock fortress located in the northern Matale District near the town of Dambulla in the Central Province, Sri Lanka.
Sinopia
Sinopia (also known as sinoper, named after the now Turkish city Sinop) is a dark reddish-brown natural earth pigment, whose reddish colour comes from hematite, a dehydrated form of iron oxide.
Sistine Chapel
The Sistine Chapel (Sacellum Sixtinum; Cappella Sistina) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the pope's official residence in Vatican City.
Sistine Chapel ceiling
The Sistine Chapel ceiling (Soffitto della Cappella Sistina), painted in fresco by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is a cornerstone work of High Renaissance art.
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Sittanavasal
Sittanavasal is a small hamlet in Pudukkottai district of Tamil Nadu, India.
Slaking (geology)
Slaking is the process in which earth materials disintegrate and crumble when exposed to moisture.
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.
St. Ann's Church Complex (Woonsocket, Rhode Island)
St.
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Studenica Monastery
The Studenica Monastery (Манастир Студеница / Manastir Studenica) is a 12th-century Serbian Orthodox monastery situated southwest of Kraljevo and east of Ivanjica, in central Serbia.
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Sucevița Monastery
Sucevița Monastery is an Eastern Orthodox convent situated in the Northeastern part of Romania.
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Symposium
In Ancient Greece, the symposium (συμπόσιον, sympósion or symposio, from συμπίνειν, sympínein, "to drink together") was the part of a banquet that took place after the meal, when drinking for pleasure was accompanied by music, dancing, recitals, or conversation.
Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.
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Tempera
Tempera, also known as egg tempera, is a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of pigments mixed with a water-soluble binder medium, usually glutinous material such as egg yolk. Fresco and tempera are painting techniques.
Temperature
Temperature is a physical quantity that quantitatively expresses the attribute of hotness or coldness.
Thanjavur Nayak kingdom
The Thanjavur Nayak dynasty (or Thanjavur Nayak kingdom) were the rulers of Thanjavur in the 15th and 17th centuries.
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The Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.
The Last Supper (Leonardo)
The Last Supper (Il Cenacolo or L'Ultima Cena) is a mural painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to, housed in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy.
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The Loves of the Gods
The Loves of the Gods is a monumental fresco cycle, completed by the Bolognese artist Annibale Carracci and his studio, in the Farnese Gallery which is located in the west wing of the Palazzo Farnese, now the French Embassy, in Rome.
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The School of Athens
The School of Athens (Scuola di Atene) is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael.
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Thracian tomb of Aleksandrovo
The Aleksandrovo tomb is a Thracian burial mound and tomb excavated near Aleksandrovo, Haskovo Province, South-Eastern Bulgaria, dated to c. 4th century BCE.
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Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak
The Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak (Казанлъшка гробница, Kazanlǎška grobnica) is a vaulted-brickwork "beehive" (tholos) tomb that is located near the town of Kazanlak in central Bulgaria.
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Thracians
The Thracians (translit; Thraci) were an Indo-European speaking people who inhabited large parts of Southeast Europe in ancient history.
Tomb
A tomb (τύμβος tumbos) or sepulcher (sepulcrum.) is a repository for the remains of the dead.
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Tomb of Orcus
The Tomb of Orcus (Tomba dell'Orco), sometimes called the Tomb of Murina (Tomba dei Murina), is a 4th-century BC Etruscan hypogeum (burial chamber) in Tarquinia, Italy.
Tomb of the Diver
The Tomb of the Diver (Tomba del tuffatore), now in the museum at Paestum, Italy, is a frescoed tomb that dates to around 500 to 475 BCE, and is famous for the mysterious subject matter of the ceiling fresco, a lone diver leaping into a pool of water.
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Tornabuoni Chapel
The Tornabuoni Chapel (Italian: Cappella Tornabuoni) is the main chapel (or chancel) in the church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy.
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Transfiguration Monastery, Bulgaria
The Transfiguration Monastery (Преображенски манастир, Preobrazhenski manastir) or the Monastery of the Holy Transfiguration of God (манастир "Свето Преображение Господне", manastir "Sveto Preobrazhenie Gospodne") is an Eastern Orthodox monastery located in the Dervent gorge of the Yantra River.
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Tsuguharu Foujita
was a Japanese–French painter.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
Veii
Veii (also Veius; Veio) was an important ancient Etruscan city situated on the southern limits of Etruria and north-northwest of Rome, Italy.
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Venice
Venice (Venezia; Venesia, formerly Venexia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.
Villa Farnesina
The Villa Farnesina is a Renaissance suburban villa in the Via della Lungara, in the district of Trastevere in Rome, central Italy.
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Visoki Dečani
The Visoki Dečani Monastery is a medieval Serbian Orthodox Christian monastery located near Deçan, Kosovo.
Voroneț Monastery
The Voroneț Monastery is a medieval monastery in the Romanian village of Voroneț, now a part of the town Gura Humorului.
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Water
Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula.
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Wawel Cathedral
The Wawel Cathedral (Katedra Wawelska), formally titled the Archcathedral Basilica of Saint Stanislaus and Saint Wenceslaus, (Bazylika archikatedralna św.) is a Catholic cathedral situated on Wawel Hill in Kraków, Poland.
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World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.
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Znojmo
Znojmo (Znaim) is a town in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic.
See also
Fresco painting
- Buon fresco
- Conservation and restoration of Pompeian frescoes
- Conservation and restoration of frescos
- Elmelunde Master
- Fall of the Giants (Romano)
- Fresco
- Fresco-secco
- Gambier Parry process
- Giornata
- Giovanni Battista Arnaud
- Grisaille
- Illusionistic ceiling painting
- Mineral painting
- St Peter and St Paul's Church, Pickering
- Union Master
Plastering
- Acoustic plaster
- Cement render
- Earthen plaster
- Fresco
- Harling (wall finish)
- Hawk (plasterer's tool)
- Intonaco
- Joint compound
- Keene's cement plaster
- Lath and plaster
- Lime (material)
- Lime plaster
- Lime render
- Limepit
- Marmorino
- Moorish oven
- Opus albarium
- Pargeting
- Plaster
- Plaster spraying
- Plaster veneer
- Plasterer
- Plasterers
- Plasterwork
- Qadad
- Roughcast
- Sakan (plasterwork)
- Sarooj
- Scagliola
- Seljuk stucco figures
- Sgraffito
- Shikkui
- Spackling paste
- Stucco
- Tadelakt
- Trowel
- Wattle and daub
Wallcoverings
- Anaglypta
- Artex
- Ashlar
- Azulejo
- Cement board
- Cement render
- Clay panel
- Drywall
- Fireboard
- Flexible stone veneer
- Frame and panel
- Fresco
- Fresco painting
- Glazed architectural terra-cotta
- Ingrain wallpaper
- LED wallpaper
- Leather wallpaper
- Lime render
- Lincrusta
- Magnesium oxide wallboard
- Marmorino
- Mineral bonded wood wool board
- Mirror
- Murals
- Oil base
- Opus albarium
- Panelling
- Pargeting
- Plaster
- Plaster veneer
- Plastering
- Qadad
- Rotherwas Room
- Scagliola
- Shadows from the Walls of Death
- Stone veneer
- Stucco
- Tadelakt
- Tapestries
- Wall decal
- Wallpaper
- Wallpaper paste
- Wallpaper tax
- William Morris wallpaper designs
- Zellij
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresco
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