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Fresco depicting two Lares (protective deities, sons of the god Mercury) pouring wine from a drinking horn (rhyton) into a bucket (situla). They stand on either side of a scene of sacrifice. The head of the family makes offerings, a musician...

A fresco detail from a banquet scene (known as 'La Parisienne') from Knossos, 1400-1350 BCE. The figure, in a robe and with a sacral knot at her neck, is perhaps a priestess. (Archaeological Museum, Heraklion)

A detail of the 1st century BCE fresco which decorated the dining room (triclinium) of the Villa of the Farnesina in Rome. The long frieze depicts judicial scenes, perhaps famous cases and the events which led to the trial. (Palazzo Massimo...

Fresco depicting the myth of Narcissus, in the House of Octavius Quartio at Pompeii.

Fresco from the Palazzo Sclafani (Palermo), c. 1446 CE, now in the Galleria Regionale della Sicilia.

Council of Trent (1545-1563), fresco by Pasquale Cati, 1588. Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere.

A fresco by the Swiss artist Paul Bodmer (1886-1983 CE) within the Fraumunster which illustrates the legend of its founding by Princesses Hildegard and Bertha in the mid-9th century CE.

A fresco depicting the Laocoön story in the Casa del Menandro, Pompeii. (Wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0)

A Roman fresco depicting Hipparchia of Maroneia (l. c. 350 – 280 BCE) and Crates of Thebes (l. c. 360 – 280 BCE). 1st Century CE. From the Villa Farnesina, Museo delle Terme, Rome.

The triclinium (dining room) of the Villa Arianna in Stabiae (southern Italy) was richly decorated in the Fourth Pompeian Style with a large mythological scene depicting Dionysus’ discovery of Ariadne on the island of Naxos. The villa was...