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  2. Byzantine Fresco Chapel - Wikipedia

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    The Byzantine Fresco Chapel is a part of the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, near the University of St. Thomas.From February 1997 to February 2012, it displayed the only intact Byzantine frescoes of this size and importance in the western hemisphere.

  3. Menil Collection - Wikipedia

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    The museum campus has grown to include four satellite galleries to the main building: Cy Twombly Gallery (also designed by Piano); The Dan Flavin Installation at Richmond Hall, which houses Dominique de Menil's last commission (a series of three site-specific installations by Dan Flavin that were installed in 1998); The Byzantine Fresco Chapel; and the Menil Drawing Institute.

  4. Porfirio Salinas - Wikipedia

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    Salinas began painting professionally in 1930, when he was twenty years old. [4] His early work was influenced by his mentor Robert Wood's paintings. [5] He painted many scenes of Texas bluebonnets, the state flower, which were sold to tourists by the artists and galleries in San Antonio, Texas.

  5. Painting in the Americas before European colonization

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    Circa 450-600 AD, original fresco. Painting in the Americas before European colonization is the Precolumbian painting traditions of the Americas. Painting was a relatively widespread, popular and diverse means of communication and expression for both religious and utilitarian purpose throughout the regions of the Western Hemisphere.

  6. Fresco - Wikipedia

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    Fresco painting continued into the Baroque in southern Europe, ... it is the first example of a modern, Mexican fresco mural in the U.S. [32]

  7. Category:Fresco paintings - Wikipedia

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    Fresco paintings, a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting becomes an integral part of the wall.

  8. Carlos Mérida - Wikipedia

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    Carlos Mérida (December 2, 1891 – December 21, 1985) was a Guatemalan artist and naturalized Mexican who was one of the first to fuse European modern painting to Latin American themes, especially those related to Guatemala and Mexico.

  9. Category:Artists from Texas - Wikipedia

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    Art portal; Texas portal; Biography portal; Artists who were born in, have lived in, have worked in or been involved with Texas Subcategories. This category has the ...