In the ruins of an ancient Roman villa in Spain, researchers have unearthed over 4,000 fragments of murals painted in the ...

While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo Maratta.

The discovery wasn’t the only set of impressive frescoes discovered in Pompeii ... and an amateur excavator digging up a confounding ancient Roman object. The experts made plenty of headlines ...

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 ...

The graveyard of Liternum, near Naples, was in use between the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E.

In 1933, the Ebell of Los Angeles commissioned frescoes by renowned muralist Maxine Albro. Two years later — after contentious battle — the frescoes were thought to be destroyed. They have now been ...