Sipping champagne and nibbling caviar, 125 art-world glitterati gaze at Michelangelo's famed Sistine Chapel frescoes.
Do not miss the well preserved frescoes depicting scenes from the life of Christ.
He's funded the restoration of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Pauline Chapel of the Vatican.
Up a seemingly endless winding staircase is a room whose frescoes are alive with symbolism.
They were decorated with brightly coloured reproductions of Minoan frescoes found in the excavation.
The rooms were converted into small chapels in the 15th Century and are decorated with frescoes depicting her life.
The steep staircase down leads to a 4th-Century church, decorated with fading frescoes.
In 2007, the Getty agreed to return 40 disputed objects to Italy, and all three frescoes were recovered by 2009.
Each building is a work of art, with nooks, alcoves, frescoes and fireplaces.
Mr Citati said that this endless, rising, humid "wall of human breath" could be damaging for the priceless frescoes above.
Things get more traditional upstairs, where corridors and some of the 71 guest rooms have remnants of original 14th-century frescoes.
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Most of the interiors are just as luxe as the gold pool outside, featuring tile mosaics, hand-painted walls and ceilings frescoes.
Later in the day, the cardinals walked in procession through corridors lined with frescoes, marble and Swiss Guards donning warlike helmets.
Two more frescoes flank this painting, one depicting the effects of good government and another showing the effects of bad government.
Gothic architecture added narrative in colored stained glass to the figurative repertory, and frescoes at the close of the Middle Ages.
They're sending damanging fumes and vibrations up his giant frame to the fragile frescoes that adorn the area around his head.
The domed living room ceiling is covered with replicas of Michelangelo's frescoes from the Sistine Chapel, all handpicked by his wife, Villoo.
Later, stained-glass windows and the now famous frescoes by Giotto were added.
Glorious frescoes adorn most homes and religious buildings throughout Bhutan, with creatures, flowers and intricate, abstract patterns sprawling over broad wooden beams and mud walls.
Its tranquil grounds, enveloped in greenery and ancient frescoes, can beguile you into getting a book out and spending the rest of the afternoon here.
And the national parliament was moved out of its Stalin-era stone fortress, adorned with Soviet frescoes of happy socialist workers, into a modernist glass dome.
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The fact that this species has been capable of creating pyramids, cathedrals, frescoes and poems that are nothing less than divine makes it worth saving.
The five initial MOMA frescoes are uneven in quality, having been made in six weeks of around-the-clock toil in an improvised studio at the museum.
It includes the Salle des Taureaux, or Hall of the Bulls, famous for its frescoes of crimson aurochs and dappled horses, as well as a gallery lined with reindeer.
Despite the great plumes of smoke that poured out of the chimney, Lombardi said, neither the Sistine frescoes nor the cardinals inside the chapel suffered any smoke damage.
Frescoes found there, one depicting a naval battle and the other a sacred landscape, have been reconstructed and are displayed within their restored walls in the exhibition's last station.
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They refused to examine the murals, to scrutinize their miracle, even after Malskat submitted photographs taken with his Leica documenting his creative progress from whitewashed walls to finished frescoes.
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The works, which include sculptures and bracelets, frescoes and funerary urns, hail from collections as esteemed as the Louvre in Paris, Kunsthistorisches in Vienna, and British Museum in London.
Hot enough to melt the church bells, the Palm Sunday fire peeled five centuries of whitewash off the walls, exposing enormous Gothic frescoes painted when the building was erected.
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