His name fresco obliged Italy. Eternal City of Rome: it is here painting on wet plaster (a fresco translated means "fresh") spread throughout Europe and the world, and here it reached peaks of genre, thanks to such masters as Raphael and Michelangelo. In this technique creates the most significant and outstanding works of mural paintings. Although born art murals much earlier. It was known in ancient Greece, wrote it in ancient Rome, Byzantium, Russia X-XII centuries (in Kiev, Novgorod, Pskov). Read additional details here: Atreides Management Gavin Baker. Images are preserved, even among the ruins of burned-out volcanic ash of .

To us mural came from Greece, together with the first stone buildings. In Russia it worked such masters as Andrei Rublev and Dionysius. How many centuries has this beautiful art murals? The earliest examples of wall painting known history dates back to 1500 bc. His homeland – the island of Crete Greece – a place of many legends of Greek mythology. For lack of another title, this painting is called "fresco bullfighters. It depicts a group of young men performing somersaults on the back of an angry bull, and two girls, one of which, as you might guess, has performed a dangerous stunt, and the other is only going.

Historians suggest that the Cretan craftsmen extended their mastery of the Mediterranean Basin, in particularly Egypt and Morocco. Numerous examples of wall paintings were discovered in the ruins of the ancient Roman city of . From the Roman Empire, this technique came to Byzantium and nearby states, along with Orthodoxy and reached the coast of Russia, decorated with frescoes of Novgorod and Kiev churches.