#wall painting
Cave of El Castillo / Cueva de El Castillo, Spain, about 35000 years old
Photos: Gabinete de Prensa del Gobierno de Cantabria / wikimedia commons / CC BY 3.0 ES
Al-qatt al-asiri: traditionally female interior wall decoration in an abandonned house, Asir province, Sarat Abidah, Saudi Arabia
Photo: Eric Lafforgue
Medieval Windmill - Detail of St Christopher mural at St. Mary Magdalene’s church, Wyken, England, 16th century (church dates back to the 11th century)
uncovered and restorend in the 1960s
Photo: Aidan McRae Thomson
Monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza, Burgos, Spain, after 1200,
fresco mounted on canvas, today at Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wall painting in the imperial villa at Boscotrecase, Pompeii, Italy, last decade of the 1st century B.C.
today at Metropolitan Museum of Art
St. Jakob, Grissian, Italy, about 1200
uncovered and restored 1956
Photos:Rufus46 (top and bottom right) / ManfredK (bottom left)/wikimedia commons
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Death playing chess, Taby Church/Täby Kyrka, Taby, Sweden, 15th century (1480s)
Photo: Håkan Svensson (Xauxa)/ wikimedia commons
Round church, Convent of Christ, Tomar),Portugal, 15th/16th century
Photo: Ricardo Fernandez
Cappella di San Pietro, Macra, Val Maira, Italy, probably early 15th century
Dance of Death, detail, St Mary’s parish church, Sparham, Norfolk, UK
about 1490
Photo: Simon Knott
St. Georg, Reichenau, Germany, about 1300 (church dates back to the 9th century)
Photo: Wolfgang Sauber (top) / public domain / wikimedia commons
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Totentanz von Bleibach / Danse Macabre of Bleibach, Gutach-Bleibach, Germany, 1723
oil painitng on wood
Photo: joergens.mi/wikimedia commons
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Danse Macabre, Abby La Chaise-Dieu / Abbaye de la Chaise-Dieu, France, second half of the 15th cenury (abby dates back to 1043)
Fragment of the fresco of the danse macabre, where are represented the theologian clerk, the ploughman flanked by two humans who are perished and the Cistercian monk
Photos: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT (photo at the bottom) / MirandaAdramin (all other photos) (CC BY-SA 3.0) / wikimedia commons
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Villa Poppaea, Oplontis, Italy, 1st century
excarvated in 1964
Photo:otdelnovpavel
Protestant Church at Marienhagen, Germany, about 1300
uncovered and restored 1907 and 1959
Photos:Heribert Bechen
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Painted Haveli, Rajasthan, India, Photo taken in 2011
A replica of pre-historic drawings from the Cavern of Pont-d'Arc / Grotte Chauvet in Vallon Pont d'Arc, France, orignial drawings from approximately 37,000 to 30,000 years BC
Photo:schantelle
“The torment of Saint George in prison”
salvaged fresco panel from Saint George “the Elder” church, Nesebar, Bulgaria
built in 1704, destroyed in 1958; fresco exhibited in Saint Paraskeva Church, Nesebar, Bulgaria.
Photo:fusion-of-horizons
