When Florence was hit by disastrous floods in 1966, art conservation experts rushed to the city to save as many priceless pieces of art as they could. Now Florentine scientists have developed a tool ...

Pigeons fluttering through a hole in the ceiling of a Spanish cathedral led an art restoration team to discover a hidden Renaissance fresco of winged angels that had been covered by a false ceiling ...

It isn’t often one comes across fresco paintings in art galleries, the last time I remember seeing a sizable number was the “Rooms” section of the Francesco Clemente retrospective at the Guggenheim ...

A conservator works on a section of fresco in the Brancacci Chapel using non-invasive technologies to discover and analyse vulnerabilities in the work Photo: courtesy the National Research Council One ...

Spread over a 16 m-wide wall in the Palazzo Vecchio town hall in Florence, Leonardo da Vinci’s The Battle of Anghiari is a magnificent fresco depicting two horse riders in combat. Also impressive are ...

>In a world of endless computer-generated artistic possibilities, ancient arts such as floorcloths, gilding and fresco might seem obsolete, even lost. Yet, despite today's sophisticated technology, ...

Part of a fresco by the Zavattaris in the Theodelinda’s Chapel near Milan, Italy. The artworks, executed between 1440 and 1446 are extremely rich and complex, featuring different fresco techniques, ...

Renaissance-style frescoes are rare in this country. Yet one hangs on a wall in Nashua’s community theater. At the Court Street building, summer campers dance and run through the hallways. The room is ...

Fresco painting is often a term applied to any wall painting or mural, but fresco is a particular technique applied only to one type of wall painting. Fresco painting is one in which the paint is ...

Are you familiar with the term ‘fresco’? Before I take you on to a tour of this land of fresco work, let me tell you a little about what fresco is. According to the dictionary and experts of the art ...