Word: frescoes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...leaders of the Umbrian school. Pierro, besides being an artist of distinction, has a great reputation as a mathematician. In 1439 he was apprenticed to Domenic Veneziano, and assisted him in painting the chapel of Sant Egidio in Santa Mari Novella, Florence. He was engaged in painting a fresco in Rimini in 1451. His most important series of frescoes are those in the choir of San Francesco, in Arezzo, depicting the history of the Cross...
...upper corridor of the Fogg Art Museum is placed on temporary exhibition a painting in fresco of the Virgin of the Annunciation, probably the earliest known work of the Florentine painter Ghirlandaio. Examples of fresco are very rare in this country, and this work is very important in showing the quality of the wall painting of the great Florentine masters...