Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered a nearly life-size fresco, or megalography, depicting the Dionysiac procession in an ...

The new Pompeian frescoes are captivated by their detail and depth, depicting mysterious practices of the cult of Dionysus on ...

The House of Thiasus got its name from the “thiasos,” or sacred procession, of Dionysus. The fresco matches the Second Style ...

I’m not an artist by any stretch, so when I started poking around Adobe’s Fresco, the drawing and painting app for the iPad and iPhone, I approached the app with trepidation. I shouldn’t have. Fresco ...

Marcia Myers was an American painter best known for her large-scale Color Field abstractions. Emulating the traditional fresco painting techniques of ancient Rome, she used several layers of marble ...

Fresco painting is a technique that dates back thousands of years. Although exact techniques varied from century to century, the popular understanding of it is the process of applying pigment to a ...

We are very proud that we didn't lose this piece of art in Tuscany ... As you can see, there's a lot of gaps in the fresco, because some of the paint has faded, some others were lost.

The fresco provides crucial evidence of a medieval ... an Islamic tent in St Peter's Basilica at some point prior to the painting of the fresco. Gigante suggests that the tent could also have ...