Fresco - Selected Examples of Frescoes

Selected Examples of Frescoes

Italian Early Medieval

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Italian Late Medieval-Quattrocento

• Panels (including Giotto(?), Lorenzetti, Martini and others) in upper and lower Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi
• Giotto, Cappella degli Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
• Camposanto, Pisa
• Masaccio, Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence
• Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena
• Piero della Francesca, Chiesa di San Francesco, Arezzo
• Ghirlandaio, Cappella Tornabuoni, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
• The Last Supper, Leonardo Da Vinci, Milan (technically a tempera on plaster and stone, not a true fresco)
• Sistine Chapel Wall series: Botticelli, Perugino, Rossellini, Signorelli, and Ghirlandaio
• Luca Signorelli, Chapel of San Brizio, Duomo, Orvieto

Italian "High Renaissance"

• Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling
• Raphael's Vatican Stanza
• Raphael's Villa Farnesina
• Giulio Romano's Palazzo del Tè, Mantua
• Mantegna, Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua
• The dome of the Cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore of Florence

Italian Baroque

• The Loves of the Gods, Annibale Carracci, Palazzo Farnese
• Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power, Pietro da Cortona, Palazzo Barberini
• Ceilings, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, (New Residenz) Würzburg, (Royal Palace) Madrid, (Villa Pisani) Stra, and others; Wall scenes (Villa Valmarana and Palazzo Labia)
• Nave ceiling, Andrea Pozzo, Sant'Ignazio, Rome

Czech Republic

• The Ducal Rotunda of the Virgin Mary and St Catherine in Znojmo, Czech Republic

Mexico

• Fresco Cycle of The Miracles of the Virgin of Guadalupe by Fernando Leal, at Basilica of Guadalupe, Mexico City, Mexico
• Fresco Cycle of Bolivar's Epic by Fernando Leal, at Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico

Serbian Medieval

• Visoki Dečani