San Francisco announces Coit Tower overhaul fund - Los Angeles Times
25 May 2012, 11:35 pm
Mayor Ed Lee and David Chiu, president of the Board of Supervisors, late Thursday announced creation of a $1.7-million fund to repair the severely damaged frescoes and upgrade the dramatic concrete tower built in 1933 with a bequest from ...

Riviera Historic Homes Tour gives a glimpse of Hollywood glamour in Torrance - Daily Breeze
25 May 2012, 8:00 pm
But before the Reids settled in, Block's "dream house" stood alone on the sandy dunes sloping shoreward. Two frescoes in the sunroom offer a glimpse of what the view of the Palos Verdes Peninsula and surrounding grounds all dotted with coastal ...

Vatican Museums to open new rooms, hallways - Catholic Culture
25 May 2012, 1:48 pm
Dark Rome, an Irish-owned tour group, has arranged to provide guided tours of the Vatican Museums that will include the Capella Nicolina—adorned with frescoes by Fra Angelico and with gold brought by Christopher Columbus from the Americas—and the Bramante steps.

Medieval Frescoes By Giotto Threatened By Construction Project - GADLING
25 May 2012, 1:20 pm
Priceless frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Italy, may be damaged by a nearby construction project, experts say. The frescoes were painted by Giotto di Bondone around 1305 and are considered a high point in medieval art. They depict the ...

Rediscovering our Sikh heritage - DAWN Group
24 May 2012, 9:53 am
When I learned that ‘Getting to Know Pre-Colonial Punjab through Sikh-period Frescoes’ was being offered as an actual course at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) last semester, I was ecstatic. It was my first encounter with ...

The Soaring Legacy of Luca Signorelli - New York Times
23 May 2012, 6:55 am
The art historian also highlighted the frescoes Signorelli painted in the Capella Nova in Orvieto’s Duomo as a decisive influence, “as anyone can see,” in Vasari’s words, on Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment” in the Sistine Chapel.

Catacombs, tombs and prisons: The creepiest parts of Palermo, Sicily - Examiner
21 May 2012, 11:04 pm
Prisoners of the Inquisition were often great artists. Remarkable frescoes, drawings, poetry and graffiti have been discovered beneath layers of paint within the building. Historians have concluded that the prisoners completed the art with their own blood ...

Italy quake kills at least six, damages historic buildings - YAHOO!
19 May 2012, 10:52 pm
Three of the town's churches were severely hit, damaging centuries-old frescoes and other works of art. "We have practically lost all our artistic patrimony," said Alberto Silvestri, mayor of San Felice. "Churches and towers collapsed. The theatre is still ...

Giotto frescoes could suffer "irreversible damage" from development plans - Daily Telegraph
19 May 2012, 8:47 am
They are regarded as a supreme masterpiece of medieval Western art and are admired by thousands of visitors to the city of Padua each year. But frescoes by the Italian Renaissance painter, Giotto di Bondone, in the 14th century Scrovegni Chapel, are now ...

Renowned fresco artist Balma will donate work to St. John’s - Forest Lake Times
16 May 2012, 2:20 pm
Internationally renowned portrait and fresco artist Mark Balma, best known throughout the Twin Cities for his frescoes at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis and at the Cathedral of St. Paul, is donating six frescoes to St. John’s ...