A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll has been digitally unwrapped for the first time, revealing an ancient Greek Epicurean ...

In the ancient refectory of the Franciscan monastery (now the museum) attached to the church of Santa Croce in Florence, there is a fragment of a Hell fresco (fig. 1) discovered in 1942 behind an ...

Another tomb with unusual fresco decoration can be found in what was the ancient Greek city of Poseidonia (Paestum to the Romans), not far from the modern day Italian city of Salerno. Discovered ...

Fresco painting was popular in Ancient Greece and Rome and then adopted by ... Apart from painting, some artists carved out fragments of plaster base to give more depth to certain elements of ...