#fresco

6th to 8th century frescoes in Santa Maria Antiqua.

Ancient Roman Forum, Rome

Jupiter and Juno (1597-1604) by Annibale Carracci (Italian, 1560 – 1609), fresco, Farnese Gallery, Rome.

Parri Spinelli (1387-1453), Angels (detail), XV century, fresco, Italy, Arezzo (Tuscany), Saint Dominic Church.

Today’s Flickr photo with the most hits: fresco in the Borgia apartments, Vatican, Rome.

Assumption of the Virgin (1526-1530 by Antonio da Correggio (Italian, 1489 – 1534), fresco, 1,093 cm (11.9 yd) x 1,195 cm (13 yd), Parma Cathedral

I DREW MY ROBLOX AVATAR EEEHHEHEEE

I couldn’t really find any good outfits for it in-game so I just made one myself :3 ..and I was too lazy to draw the stickers and headphones but who’s gonna know

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Piero Francescchi frescoes at Basilica of San Francesco, Arezzo.

Give me a bathroom like this. Doria Pamhilji Palace

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One day my room will look like this, can’t wait to be traveling again and visiting new museums and palaces 🕯️

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Io, Arg and Hermes.

Luca Signorelli, Italian. (ca. 1450-1523). Dante (detail), 1499-1502. Fresco, detail within a larger fresco cycle. Cappella di San Brizio, Orvieto Cathedral, Orvieto, Italy.

Signorelli was born and died in Cortona, Italy.

This image represents Dante Alighieri as incorporated into Luca Signorelli’s monumental fresco program for the Cappella di San Brizio. The figure appears as a self-contained fictive panel embedded within the surrounding eschatological decoration, rather than as an independent portrait work. Dante is identified through established late medieval and early Renaissance iconography, including the laurel wreath and distinctive head covering, conventions already standardized in visual culture by the fifteenth century.

The fresco was executed during Signorelli’s documented campaign in Orvieto, begun in 1499 and continuing into the early years of the sixteenth century. Dante’s inclusion aligns with the chapel’s broader intellectual framework, which draws upon theological, literary, and humanistic sources familiar to a learned ecclesiastical audience. At the time of execution, Signorelli was an established master with significant experience in large-scale narrative fresco cycles.

Michelangelo. Delphic Sibyl, ca. 1509. Sistine Chapel ceiling, the Vatican.

Ignudo (1511) by Michelangelo (Italian, 1475 – 1564), fresco, Sistine Chapel, Apostolic Palace, Vatican City