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 ...

Absent of depictions in art or descriptions in literature, Roman dodecahedrons remain enigmas ... A tomb more than 4,300 years old revealed a window into the era’s daily life when archaeologists ...

There, they marvel at masterpieces including Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescos ... and the Roman copy of the Apollo Belvedere. Another of the Vatican’s must-see areas for any art-loving ...

The frescoes mainly depict scenes ... could help shed light on some of the changes Roman society was undergoing during the ...