PICTURES PAINTED ON WALLS
If people want to decorate the walls of their houses, they might hang
wallpaper or they might just hang lots of pictures. In the museum in
Vatican City, Rome, pictures are painted on the walls themselves. Such
pictures
The Italian artist Raphael painted these pictures on plaster walls in
a building in Vatican City, Rome.
This Madonna and Child picture is in the Parma Gallery in Parma, Italy.
It was painted by the Italian artist Correggio.
are called “frescoes” from an Italian word that means “fresh. Artists
painted the pictures on freshly plastered walls a long time ago. Many of
the pictures show events from the Bible.
In the Capitol in Washington, D.C., many of the walls and ceilings are
covered with frescoes that show events in the history of the United
States.
