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The earliest dated Shekhawati work includes the ‘Jaipur fresco’ work, which was employed before Jaipur’s foundation by craftsmen employed by Mughal rulers and in Amer. This involves thick layers of pigment being applied and worked onto a wet plaster surface. The pigment is often incised scraperboard-like with geometric and floral designs.
The Last Judgment in the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, in Florence, Italy is a fresco painting which was begun by the Italian Renaissance master Giorgio Vasari in 1572 and completed after his death by Federico Zuccari, in 1579.
In 1484, an agent of Ludovico il Moro wrote to his lord, describing the works of the individual artists whose works he had seen in Florence: "Domenico Ghirlandaio [is] a good painter on panel and better in mural fresco; his style is very good; he is active and very creative." [14]
Shekhawati is a region in Northern India that comprises Sikar, Jhunjhunu, and Churu. [ 1 ] In the 17th to 19th centuries, Marwari merchants and shekhawat kings constructed grand havelis in the Shekhawati region.
Saint Jerome; Madonna and Child, both dated 1490, frescoes (Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello). Madonna della Cintola , circa 1492–95, fresco (Florence, Santa Croce, Baroncelli chapel). Frescoes, including Saints Gimignano, Lucy, Augustine and the Four Evangelist in the vault of the chapel of San Bartolo in the church Sant'Agostino, San ...
Fresco paintings in the Museo Nazionale di San Marco (5 P) Pages in category "Fresco paintings in Florence" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
Francesco Sassetti (1421–1490) was a rich banker and a member of the Medici entourage, for which he directed the Medici Bank.In 1478 he acquired the chapel of St. Francis in Santa Trinita, after his proposal to add a decoration portraying the saint had been rejected by the Dominicans of Santa Maria Novella, where his family had had a chapel (later also frescoed by Ghirlandaio, and now known ...
Gozzoli was born Benozzo di Lese, [a] son of a tailor, in the village of Sant'Ilario a Colombano around 1421. His family moved to nearby Florence in 1427. According to the 16th century Italian biographer Giorgio Vasari, Gozzoli was a pupil and assistant of Fra Angelico in the early part of his career.