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A fresco fragment depicting Urania, the Muse of Astronomy, from the House of Julia Felix in Pompeii, 62-79 CE. (now in Louvre Museum, Paris)

A fresco fragment depicting Melpomene, the Muse of Tragedy, from the House of Julia Felix in Pompeii, 62-79 CE. (now in Louvre Museum, Paris)

High up on the wall almost lost in the shadows above a loculus of this columbarium one can just make out the outlines of a bird walking on a flowered garland from which hangs a grotesque mask. The columbarium was excavated in 1852 CE. The...

A fresco from the House of Julia Felix in Pompeii, Italy. The fresco depicts different kinds of Roman breads, and is on display in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.

This 1st Century CE Roman fresco portrays an erotic scene in a Nile setting. The fresco itself comes from the "House of the Ephebus" in Pompeii and it currently resides at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples in Italy.

Fresco in the Second Style showing a theatre mask, a peacock, and a perspective view of colonnades. The fresco decorates the east wall of the large oecus (room) of the Oplontis Villa Poppaea, Italy. 1st century BCE.

This reconstructed piece of wall includes fragments of the original Roman fresco from Camulodunum (Roman Colchester) depicting gladiators. The figure on the right is a defeated murmillo gladiator. He has dropped his shield and has raised...

The Bronze Age frescoes from Akrotiri on the Aegean island of Thera (modern-day Santorini) provide some of the most famous images from the ancient Greek world. Sometime between 1650 and 1550 BCE Thera suffered a devastating earthquake which...

Council of Trent (1545-1563), fresco by Pasquale Cati, 1588. Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere.

A fresco depicting the Laocoön story in the Casa del Menandro, Pompeii. (Wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0)