Murals
See Also: Paint
Wikipedia: Mural
Information about the history and significance of murals, also includes images and a list of famous muralists.
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NYPL: Murals
Collection of around 509 images related to murals in the New York Public Library's online Digital Gallery.
John Singer Sargent and Mural Decoration
A tour of the mural paintings and decorative reliefs in the dome and central rotunda of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Diego Rivera: A Man and His Murals
Information about the artist and his work.
The Diego Rivera Mural Project
Attempts to increase public accessibility and understanding of Rivera's Pan American Unity mural.
Frescoes
Vatican Museums
The Sistine Chapel
Raphael's Rooms
Frescoes in the Sistine Chapel
Collection of frescoes by Michelangelo presented by the Web Gallery of Art, includes images of the interior and exterior of the Sistine Chapel and detail images of the ceiling.
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Painting, Fresco
Frescoes and Wall Painting in Late Byzantine Art
Italian Painting of the Later Middle Ages: Fresco
Boscoreale: Frescoes from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor
Teotihuacan: Mural Painting
Piero della Francesca: Frescoes in San Francesco, Arezzo
Collection of images from the WebMuseum, Paris.
ANSC 100 Image Library: Fresco
View images of frescoes by artists including Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Pietro Berrettini da Cortona, and several others.
Wikipedia: Fresco
Information about the types, techniques, and history of frescoes, also includes a large selection of images.
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Graffiti
Recognize! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture
Graffiti exhibit featuring artists Tim Conlon and Dave Hupp, includes an interview and slideshows on the making of several murals, presented by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.
Trompe l'Oeil
Trompe l'oeil Tricks:
Borges' Baroque Illusionism
An in-depth article with an image collection from Lois Parkinson Zamora,
University of Houston.
ArtLex: Trompe l'oeil
Article with a selection of images.
NGA: Deceptions and Illusions
View highlights onine from the 2002 exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Rijksmuseum: Trompe l'oeil
A breif introduction to the art form with a selection of representative images.
