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  2. Conservation and restoration of frescos - Wikipedia

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    Antibiotics such as amoxicillin can be used to treat strains of bacteria living in a fresco's natural pigment which can turn them into powder. [9] Another method of fresco repair is the application of a protection and support bandage of cotton gauze and polyvinyl alcohol. Difficult sections are removed with soft brushes and localized vacuuming.

  3. Mosaic ceiling of the Florence Baptistery - Wikipedia

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    Overview. The Mosaic ceiling of the Florence Baptistery is a set of mosaics covering the internal dome and apses of the Baptistery of Florence.It is one of the most important cycles of medieval Italian mosaics, created between 1225 and around 1330 using designs by major Florentine painters such as Cimabue, Coppo di Marcovaldo, Meliore and the Master of the Magdalen, probably by mosaicists from ...

  4. Fresco - Wikipedia

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    The fresco technique has been employed since antiquity and is closely associated with Italian Renaissance painting. [1] [2] The word fresco is commonly and inaccurately used in English to refer to any wall painting regardless of the plaster technology or binding medium. This, in part, contributes to a misconception that the most geographically ...

  5. Separation of Light from Darkness - Wikipedia

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    Michelangelo probably completed this panel in the summer of 1512, the last year of the Sistine ceiling project. It is one of five smaller scenes that alternate with four larger scenes that run along the center of the Sistine ceiling. The Separation of Light from Darkness is based on verses 3–5 from the first chapter of the Book of Genesis:

  6. Lamentation (The Mourning of Christ) - Wikipedia

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    Lamentation (The Mourning of Christ) is a fresco painted c.1305 by the Italian artist Giotto as part of his cycle of the Life of Christ on the interior walls of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Italy. [1] The Scrovegni Chapel was built as a private chapel next to the Eremitani Monastery by the wealthy Scrovegni family and consecrated in 1305.

  7. Detroit Industry Murals - Wikipedia

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    Detroit Industry, South Wall, 1932–33.Detroit Institute of Arts.. The Detroit Industry Murals (1932–1933) are a series of frescoes by the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, consisting of twenty-seven panels depicting industry at the Ford Motor Company and in Detroit.

  8. Dimmer - Wikipedia

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    A dimmer rack containing 192 dimmers, with one dimmer per circuit. The dark-grey box at the upper left is a demultiplexer. Dimmer in a residential application with RF-based remote control. Non domestic dimmers are usually controlled remotely by means of various protocols.

  9. Sistine Chapel ceiling - Wikipedia

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    In di Paolo's painting, as in Michelangelo's fresco, God is accompanied and apparently carried aloft by attendant putti. [144] Raphael employed movement somewhat more in his contemporary The Prime Mover , next door to the Sistine Chapel in the s tanza della segnatura and painted 1509–11; Perugino's slightly earlier Creator in fresco , in the ...