Historical Frescoes

Ancient murals and frescoes portraying figures in various narratives, with vivid details capturing emotions and interactions from historical contexts.

The Lovers meet in the Garden of the Chatelaine with a small dog as their pretext, Frescoes of the Legend of the Chatelaine of Viergy, Bedroom of the Landlady, Palazzo Davanzati, Florence, Tuscany, Italy, Europe

Artist: Bartolommeo Bulgarini, Italian, active by 1337, died 1378, Virgin and Child Enthroned with TwoAngels, ca.1360, Tempera on panel, 69.1 × 60.2 cm (27 3/16 × 23 11/16in.), Made in Siena, Italy, Italian,Siena, 14thcentury, Paintings

Spanish tapestry / 12th century

Beautiful mosaics in the Basilica di San Vitale, Unesco world heritage site Ravenna, Italy, Europe

Roman fresco depicting a statue of Apollo, next to the omphalo, the stone covered by a net that marked the center of the universe. 1st century BC. National Archaeological Museum. Naples. Italy.

Catedral de Faras. Fresco con la representación de un arcángel con espada. Porche de la entrada sur al templo. Siglos XII-XIII. Galería Faras. Museo Nacional. Varsovia. Polonia.

Mosaics at Villa Romana del Casale (Roman Villa) in Piazza Armerina Sicily Italy

FRONTAL DE ESPINELVAS. Location: MUSEO EPISCOPAL. VIC. Barcelona. SPANIEN.

PINTURA MURAL DE SANT ESTEVE D´ANDORRA LA VIEJA. Author: MESTRE D'ANDORRA.

Herb garden, herbarium on the vaulted ceiling of the nave, Michelsberg Monastery, Michaelsberg, former Benedictine Abbey, Bamberg, Upper Franconia, Ba...

Italy, Venice, la "Serenissima", St Mark's Basilica, mosaic : "Translation of the body of Saint Mark"

Italy, Latium region, Viterbo province, Tarquinia, Etruscan necropolis, tomb of the Leopards, fresco

Allegory of Temperance with the walled city, Master of Minerbi House, fresco, Salon of Allegory, Minerbi home, Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna. Detail. Italy, 14th century.

Fresco showing woman. Hellenistic. Pompeii 1st. century BC. Museum: ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM, BERLIN, ITALIA.

The beheading of John the Baptist, 12th century, fresco inside the Benedictine Convent of St John (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1983), Mustair, Engadin, Canton of Graubunden, Switzerland, detail.

Italy, Padua, Scrovegni Chapel with frescoes painted by Giotto in the 14th century

Tomba Bartoccini. Extraordinary group of painted Etruscan tombs in the necropolis of Tarquinia. it is possible to admire some of the painted hypogea. Tarquinia; Viterbo; Lazio, Italy, Europe

Large mural painting from the 14th century, legend of Saint Mary Magdalene, convent of San Juan and San Pablo, Peñafiel, Valladolid Museum ,Spain.

Frescoes, Tomba dei Leopardi, Tomb of the Leopards, one of the Etruscan grave chambers of Monterozzi Necropolis, 6th to 2nd century BC, Tarquinia, Lazio, Italy, Europe

MOSAICO DEL NINFEO DE LA CASA DEL ESQUELETO - SIGLO I. Location: CIUDAD ROMANA. ITALIA.

Sailing towards Rome, detail from the Stories of St Ursula, by Tommaso da Modena (1326-1379), fresco. Detail. Church of Santa Caterina, Treviso.

Venus and The Three Graces Offering Presents To A Young Girl by Sandro Botticelli, 1483-1485, France, Paris, Musee du Louvre

Italy. Ravenna. Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, 5th century. Mosaic. Martyrdom of of St. Lawrence. Mosaic.

The Arian Baptistry in Ravenna, Italy was erected by the Ostrogothic King Theodoric the Great between the end of the 5th century and the beginning of 6th century. Ceiling Mosaic of the Arian Baptistry

Tomb of Hunting and Fishing. ITALY. Tarquinia. Necropolis of Monterozzi. Tomb of Hunting and Fishing. Fishermen. Etruscan art. Fresco.

Mural painting from the 16th century, Casas Pintadas, Evora, Portugal, Europe

Historic fresco on the portal of the Abbazia Chiaravalle della Colomba, oldest Cistercian abbey in Italy, Emilia Romagna, Italy, Europe

ARTE S. XIX. MODERNISMO. ESPAÑA. CASAS CARBO, Ramón (Barcelona,1866-Barcelona, 1932). Pintor catalán. "LAS SIRENAS DEL MEDITERRANEO" (Les Sirenes de la Mediterrània). Vista del fresco existente en el "SALON DE LAS SIRENAS" del restaurante "LA FONDA ESPAÑA", reformado por Lluís DOMENECH I MONTANER en 1899. Barrio del Raval. BARCELONA. Cataluña.

Design for a mural, Design for the Second Bossche Wall: the last of the five wise virgins, draughtsman: Antoon Derkinderen, 1869 - 1925, linen (material), brush, h 325 mm × w 372 mm

A picture of the Prince of the Lilies Fresco at the Knossos Palace

Mural painting with grotesqueries above the door of a building, Ardez, Scuol, Engadin, Canton of Graubunden, Switzerland.

Medioeval frescoes, Benedictine Abbey of Sant'Angelo in Formis, Capua, Campania, Italy, Europe

Design for the second Bossche Wand: the last of the five wise virgins. Design for a wall painting.

Blassac village. Church mural painting. Haute-Loire department. Auvergne Rhone Alpes. France

azulejo con la imagen de ramon Llull, Santa Catalina Thomas y San Alonso rodriguez, calle Santa Eulalia, Mallorca, balearic islands, Spain.

Wall niche with paintings, Itimad-ud-Daula's Tomb, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India, Asia

Adam and Eve mural and Romansch inscription painted on 17th century houses, village of Ardez, Engadine Valley, Graubunden, Switzerland, Europe

Fragment of wall decoration in Second Pompeian Style showing ducks and antelopes, painting on plaster, 120x105 cm, from the Villa of Papyrus in Herculaneum, Campania. Roman Civilization, 70-60 BC.

Close-up of a mural in a cave, Ajanta, Maharashtra, India

Moses with tablets of the law, painted capital, Romanesque church of Sant'Andrea, 12th century, Toscolano-Maderno, western shore of Lake Garda, Lombardy, province of Brescia, Italy, Europe

Great Palace Mosaic Museum. 4th-6th centuries. Detail of a mosaic depicting an elderly man. Istanbul. Turkey.

Roman fresco from Pompeii of lovers. House of the Vettii. ITALY.

Table of Consanguinity. Unknown

Italy, Sicily, Palermo, Cappella Palatina (b.1140) Mosaics

Egyptian tomb wall painting from Thebes, Luxor. Dated 11th Century BC

Turkey, Istanbul, Kariye Museum, Turning water into wine, fresco

Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye Enthroned Beneath a Kiosk, Tomb of Anen. Artist: Nina de Garis Davies (1881-1965). Dimensions: Facsimile: H. 71.2 × W. 103.4 cm (28 1/16 × 40 11/16 in.); Framed: H. 73 × W. 104.5 cm (28 3/4 × 41 1/8 in.); Scale 1:2. Dynasty: Dynasty 18. Reign: reign of Amenhotep III. Date: ca. 1390-1352 B.C.. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Buonamico Buffalmacco. "The Triumph of Death". The Hell. Torments and figure of Satan. 1338-39. Camposanto. Pisa. Italy.

Moses with tablets of the law, painted capital, Romanesque church of Sant'Andrea, 12th century, Toscolano-Maderno, western shore of Lake Garda, Lombardy, province of Brescia, Italy, Europe

Frescoes of grataroli house, oneta, Italy

Pompeii- fresco from House of the Vettii. ITALY.

ARTE MICENICO. GRECIA. PALACIO DE KNOSSOS (1700-1450 a. C.). Vista del TRONO DE ALABASTRO DE MINOS, el rey-sacerdote supremo. A ambos lados del trono y en posición heráldica GRIFONES. SALA DEL TRONO (ala occidental). Grecia.

Ramón Casas / Fresco 'Las sirenas del Mediterráneo', 1902. Comedor principal del restaurante Fonda España de Barcelona.

CINCO ASAS - SIGLO XX. Author: EVA LOOTZ. Location: GALERIA JUANA DE AIZPURU. MADRID. SPAIN.

Roman Frescoes, Hall of Eight Columns, Luxor Temple, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Luxor, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Egypt, Thebes, Luxor, Valley of the Kings, Tomb of Ramses IV (KV2), Funerary room, detail of the frescoed ceiling representing God Shu

PANTEON REAL - PINTURAS ROMANICAS - SIGLO XII. Location: COLEGIATA DE SAN ISIDORO. LEON. ESPAíA.

Sandro Botticelli (c. 1445 1510) Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance, Venus and the three graces presenting gifts to a young woman 1483-85

Fresco(XV), Vasca Limaria (XI Roman building), Capitular Museum, Atri, Abruzzo, Italy

Painted flower tendrils, fresco on whitewashed wall, choir room, Blaubeuren Abbey, Swabian Jura, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Kiyevskaya is a station on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line of the Moscow Metro. Opened in 1953, it is lavishly decorated in the quasi-baroque style that predominated in the early 1950s. The square pylons are faced with white Ural marble and elaborately patterned ceramic tile and the plastered ceiling is decorated with a series of frescoes by various artists depicting life in Ukraine. A large mosaic at the end of the platform commemorates the 300th anniversary of the reunification of Russia and Ukraine. The architects were L. V. Lile, V. A. Litvinov, M. F. Markovsky, and V. M. Dobrokovsky.

Marble statues and blocks in Hierapolis, Turkey

The Legend of the Cross of Defeat and Beheading of Chosroes (Battle of Heraclius against Chosroes), by Pietro di Benedetto dei Franceschi known as Piero della Francesca, 1452 - 1462, 15th Century, fresco. Italy, Tuscany, Arezzo, San Francesco church, Main Chapel, left wall, lower register. Detail Defeat of Chosroes face of the trumpeter in second ground at the left.

Tomb painting. Tomb of Diver. Lovers. North slab. Paestum. 480 BC.

Italy. Tuscany. Siena. Cathedral. Crypt. Restorer.

The mosaic at Shalom Tower

The marital bath, fresco, 1303

LOS REYES CATOLICOS - SIGLO XVII - RETABLO RELICARIO DEL ALTAR LATERAL DE LA CAPILLA REAL DE GRANADA. Author: ALONSO DE MENA. Location: CATEDRAL-CAPILLA REAL-INTERIOR. GRANADA. SPAIN. Catholic Monarchs. ISABEL LA CATOLICA (1451-1504) ISABEL I DE CASTILL. FERNANDO EL CATOLICO (1452-1516) FERNANDO II ARAGO. FERNANDO II DE ARAGON (1452/1516) REY CATOLICO.

ESCALERA PRINCIPAL - PINTURA MURAL - HISTORIA DE MEXICO - SINTESIS - FRESCO SIGLO XX. Author: DIEGO RIVERA. Location: PALACIO NACIONAL. MEXICO CITY. CIUDAD DE MEXICO.

ARTE GOTICO. ESPAÑA. "PORTICO DE LA MAJESTAD" (siglo XIII). Detalle de las ARQUIVOLTAS, en las que se han representado los EJERCITOS CELESTIALES. En la más exterior, representación del JUICIO FINAL. COLEGIATA DE SANTA MARIA LA MAYOR (siglos XII-XIII). TORO. Provincia de Zamora. Castilla-León.

Tomb painting from a chamber tomb from ca 480 B. C. Lucanian period, in the Museum of Paestum, Campania, Italy, Europe

Fresco on the walls of a corridor by the Patio de la Cruz (courtyard of the Cross) in San Diego Convent Museum, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador

Colorful old medieval peasants fresco, Gdansk, Poland. Formerly known as Danzig, square established 1331, buildings from 1500 to 1600's.

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