Fresco Gallery

RIVERA, Diego

RIVERA, Diego (1886-1957). Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park, detail of mural, 1947-1948. MEXICO. Mexico City. Diego Rivera Web Museum. Central detail. Fresco on portable pannels. Mexican Mural Painting. Fresco. Proc: MEXICO. FEDERAL DISTRICT. Mexico City. Hotel Prado

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OUDS: The Tempest at Worcester College, 1949

A midsummer diversion in an Oxford garden: the Oxford University Drama Society's production of Shakespeare's The Tempest in the grounds of Worcester College, 1949. The play, produced and directed by Mr. Nevill Coghill(Dean of Exeter College), featured ingenious use of the college lake, and was favoured with brilliant weather. Date: 1949

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The Carafa Chapel. the Annunciation and the Assumption of th

The Carafa Chapel with late 15th-century frescoes (1488-1493) by Filippino Lippi (c.1457-1504). it depicts the Annunciation and the Assumption of the Virgin with St. Thomas Aquinas presenting Cardinal Carafa to the Blessed Virgin over the altar and the Glory of St Thomas on the right hand. It is also known as the Chapel of St Thomas Aquinas. Saint Mary above Minerva. Italy. Rome

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