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

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 ...

Dionysian Frescoes and the Cult of Bacchus The most ... Cuomo continues to provide crucial insights into daily life in ancient Rome, from economic production to spiritual practices.

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.

Stunning in their scale, colour and detail, frescoes can give us a fascinating glimpse of ancient civilisations. Every now and then, a new fresco is discovered which sheds further light onto how ...