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 ...

Excavated from a nearly 2,000-year-old villa in Valencia, Spain, the broken-up murals once formed fresco decor ...

Absent of depictions in art or descriptions in literature, Roman dodecahedrons remain enigmas ... deeper layers could reveal more rooms and even frescoes — potentially also precious findings.” ...

The Barberes Sur excavation covered more than 842 square meters of the large villa. The residence features lavish rooms ...

I did several test frescoes to determine the proper mixtures of plaster and how many coats would provide the optimum painting. Ling, Roger. Roman Painting. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991. Rozenberg, ...