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The Toreador Fresco Fra Angelico: The Annunciation Giotto: The Nativity Michelangelo: The Creation of Adam angel Figure 8: A simply designed interior space made vivid and compelling by frescoes on the ceiling and walls: Sistine Chapel, Rome, by Michelangelo, 1508-12, 1533-41. Vaulting with frescoes, oil on canvas by Juan Gersón, 1562; in the Franciscan church at Tecamachalco, Puebla, Mexico. Plate 13: “Aurora,” ceiling fresco by Guido Reni, 1613-14. In the Casino Rospigliosi, Rome. Nikitari, Cyprus: Asinou Church frescoes Sistine Chapel,Vatican City
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The Toreador Fresco
Fra Angelico: The Annunciation
Giotto: The Nativity
Michelangelo: The Creation of Adam
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Figure 8: A simply designed interior space made vivid and compelling by frescoes on the ceiling and walls: Sistine Chapel, Rome, by Michelangelo, 1508-12, 1533-41.
Vaulting with frescoes, oil on canvas by Juan Gersón, 1562; in the Franciscan church at Tecamachalco, Puebla, Mexico.
Plate 13: “Aurora,” ceiling fresco by Guido Reni, 1613-14. In the Casino Rospigliosi, Rome.
Nikitari, Cyprus: Asinou Church frescoes
Sistine Chapel,Vatican City
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Giotto: Lamentation
Giotto
Italian painter
Tintoretto: Last Supper
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Raphael: The Grand Duke's Madonna
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Italian painter and architect
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Andrea Mantegna
Italian artist
Sandro Botticelli: Birth of Venus
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Italian artist
Fra Angelico: Madonna of Humility
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Masaccio
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Piero della Francesca: The Flagellation of Christ
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The Finding of Moses, oil on canvas by Paolo Veronese, probably 1570/75; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 58 × 44.5 cm.
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Fra Filippo Lippi: Madonna and Child
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The Birth of the Virgin, fresco by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1486–90; in the choir of Santa Maria Novella, Florence.
Domenico Ghirlandaio
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José Clemente Orozco
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Santa Trinità Madonna by Cimabue
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