There is a Sacro Monte at Varallo-Sesia with many chapels, each containing life-sized statues and frescoes illustrating the life of Christ.
The Pompeian frescoes representing priests and ceremonies of the Isis cult are particularly important for our knowledge of the liturgy (Guimet, C.
We know of those beliefs of the Sabaziasts from the frescoes in the catacombs of Praetextatus; the Mercurius nuntius, who leads the dead, is found beside Attis under the Greek name of Hermes (see Hepding, p.
Maria frescoes at Varallo; but none of the four altar-pieces in the two transepts tempted me to give them much attention.
The frescoes are explained by written passages that tell us how, when Joachim was in the desert, an angel came to him in the guise of a fair, civil young gentleman, and told him the Virgin was to be born.
The story is told in the frescoes of the chapel of Loreto, only a quarter of an hour's walk from Varallo, and no one can have known it better than D'Enrico.
In the Baptistery, I saw the font of green basalt in which tradition says Constantine was baptized; and in its several chapels, Mosaic frescoesdating as far back as the Fifth century.
Some of the decorative inscriptions date as far back as the fourth century, and the frescoes to the seventh and eighth.
The frescoes at the palace no doubt added to the interest.
Nothing more marvelous than its frescoes so fresh and well-preserved.
Three frescoes by Domenichino, and one fresco, faded and injured by retouching, by Leonardo da Vinci, are all worth speaking of.
Another, I spent at the manufactory of the Gobelins, those tapestries as immortal as the frescoes of Angelo and Raphael.
The torture and the prison towers were interesting historically, but the beautiful faded frescoes on the walls of the popes’ private chapel rather obliterated everything else.
Ambrose and Catherine of Alexandria; Crucifixion (some of these frescoesare completely repainted).
Dust-bitten and ruined though his Brancacci Chapel frescoes now are, I never see them without the strongest stimulation of my tactile consciousness.
As it was, his frescoes at once became, and for as long as there were real artists among them remained, the training-school of Florentine painters.
Witness the resurrected frescoes in Santa Croce at Florence!
Series of Frescoes from Old Testament; also an Annunciation.
Let us glance a moment at his famous frescoes in Santa Maria Novella.
The frescoes in the same church are probably by Nardo.
But while this painting betrays no peculiar feeling for beauty of face and expression, the frescoes in the same chapel, the one in particular representing Paradise, have faces full of charm and grace.
XX-XXV and first of Frescoes recounting the Life of St. Francis, done perhaps under Giotto's directions.
II-XIX offrescoes recounting the Life of St. Francis (with occasional aid of A).
The frescoes in Bramley church, ranging in date from the 13th to the 15th century, include a representation of the murder of Thomas a Beckett.
Not a splinter of stained glass, frescoes wiped out, an attenuated remnant of church furniture mutilated and defaced.
But that something was done in this direction is quite certain: frescoes have actually been discovered in the chancel, and too, alas!
In the very ancient frescoes of San Miniato there is one in which the devil causes a wall or tower to fall down and crush a young monk.
The chapel is handsome, and covered with good frescoes and splendid Roman mosaics.
Nilus contains frescoes by Domenico Zampieri (Domenichino) of 1610, illustrating the life of the saint, which are among his most important works.
The frescoes of the roof of the Sistine chapel have portions of the design in grisaille.
Here and there frescoes of the thirteenth century line these earliest walls.
Certain frescoesin a chapel at Cerqueto, a castle in the diocese of Perugia.
Maria Nuova, and its three predella panels now in the Perugia Gallery, and the frescoes in the Nunnery of S.
There are altars made of their skulls, and chandeliers made of their thigh bones; frescoes of their spines; mosaics of their teeth and dried muscles; cozy corners of their femurs and pelves and tibiae.
Upon the walls were all sorts of curious pictures, and for a decoration of the ceiling there were automatic frescoes presenting a constantly moving bicycle scene.
In 1858, however, we find him one of the enthusiastic young artists Rossetti had gathered round him with a view to the production of the so-called frescoes in the Oxford Union.
This chapel Gaudenzio decorated with frescoes that have now disappeared, but whose former existence is recorded in an inscription placed in 1793, when the chapel was restored.
Melchiorre D'Enrico has signed the frescoes in a quasi-cipher and dated them 1619.
The Magi frescoes have, however, unfortunately suffered from damp much more than the Crucifixion ones, and I should say they had been a good deal retouched, but by a very capable artist.
Two chapels contain very extensive frescoes by Gaudenzio Ferrari, than which it is safe to say that no finer works of their kind have been preserved to us.
The frescoes are of the usual drop scene, barocco, academic kind, but where the damp has spared them they form an effective background.
It must not be forgotten that his modelled work derives an adventitious merit from the splendour of the frescoes with which it is surrounded, and from our admiration of the astounding range of power manifested by their author.
The outer frescoes are said by Bordiga to be by Giovanni Miel of Antwerp, but they are probably in reality by one of the brothers Battista and Gio.
They are certainly several years later than those in the Crucifixion chapel; but I will return to these frescoes when I come to the Magi chapel itself.
The frescoes are by Cristoforo Martinolo, also named Rocca.
The terra-cotta figures are ascribed by Bordiga to Ravello, and the frescoes to Testa, whose brother, Lorenzo Testa, was Fabbriciere at the time the chapel was erected.
As the figures have often become mangy, so the frescoes are with few exceptions injured by damp and mould.
Madonna, as in all probability the oldest building, and as certainly containing the oldest, and by no means least interesting frescoes on the Sacro Monte.
Corsican granite and Esterel porphyry supported the massive beams of the transepts; frescoes covered every inch of the walls: the pavement was mosaic, the high altar was inlaid with costly Florentine stonework.
These frescoes are the work of Perini del Vaga, a pupil of Raphael.
The frescoes found here are the finest ancient paintings in the world, and from some peculiarity in the rings upon the fingers of the female figures, they are supposed to be family portraits.
The walls were ornamented with frescoes of the Graces, Venus, and Adonis, and similar subjects.
It is an attractive work, cleverly composed, possessing a fine decorative effect, brilliant and warm, and in no way inferior to the most resplendent frescoes of Tiepolo.
The king, who loved him in spite of his follies, recalled him and entrusted him with the frescoes for the chapel of San Antonio de la Florida.
He covered the walls of the Escurial with frescoes brushed in with a turn of the wrist, the dexterity of which ill concealed their absolute lack of inspiration.
It is related that Goya used the ladies of the Court as models for these feminine countenances, and that on the day when the frescoes were unveiled, Charles IV.
Owing to these conditions, his frescoes at Saragossa and in general all his large religious compositions are in reality nothing else than vast genre paintings.
Besides this, few things are more interesting in the history of artists' friendships than the close confidence and affection which all study of the frescoes at Siena convinces us existed between him and the young Raphael.
The Umbrian frescoes were destroyed, and the baroque ornamentation we now see, substituted.
The colouring of all the frescoes is exceedingly harmonious, the greenish greys of the background are very delicate, and the foliage in the fresco over the altar must have been most beautiful.
The restoration has been carried out with the greatest care under the direction of Signor Lodovico Seitz, and has fortunately been restricted to repairing the plaster and stucco, and to cleaning the frescoes from dust and damp.
Pintoricchio's last frescoes were three, painted for the palace of Pandolfo Petrucci, in succession to a series nearly completed by Signorelli and Girolamo Genga.
The attribution of these two great frescoes to the younger master has made a great difference to his place in art.
In both frescoes the light and dark are massed with unusual judgment.
I can find very little trace of Perugino's own hand, unless it be in the head of Moses on the right, in which the execution of the hair is more in his manner, though not nearly as fine and rippling as he paints it in the frescoes of the keys.
Her Majesty remained in the great room, which she had recently had decorated with frescoes in the style discovered in the excavations at Pompeji.
The frescoes on the walls were equal to most which they have peeled off and carried to Portici.
Upon either side of a magnificent stone mantel, bearing statues in niches of kings, counts and countesses, bishops and high dignitaries, were large well executed frescoes by MM.
The attribution of these frescoes to Melchior Broederlam does not, it would seem, accord with the style or the date of their production, M.
Only a small number of them are yet occupied; there are some good busts and monuments, and some frescoes on the panels rather more striking for size and color than for beauty.
The interior of this court chapel is dazzling in appearance: the pillars are, I think, imitation of variegated marble; the sides are imitation of the same; the vaulting is covered with rich frescoeson gold ground.
Remains of its former brilliancy yet exist in the frescoeson the outside of the buildings, some of which are still bright in color, though partially defaced.
These frescoes give great animation and life to the appearance of a street, and I am glad to see a taste for them reviving.
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