Fresco (plural frescoes) is any of several related painting types. The word fresco comes from the Italian word affresco which derives from the adjective fresco ("fresh"), which has Germanic origins. Fresco paintings are done on wet plaster.
Selected examples of Italian frescoes:
Astelseprio
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
Luciano Medevici, a monochromatic fresco, destroyed in a fire in 1944.
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