This style of art is heavily associated with Italy, where breath-taking frescoes were recently discovered at the ancient site of Pompeii. Other famous Italian frescoes include Michelangelo's ...

Michelangelo may have depicted a woman suffering from breast cancer in a famous fresco of a biblical flood ... an expert in ...

and the 1818 fresco showing the excavation of famous Roman statues at the ancient town of Ostia—statues that are now on display in the museum. Contemporary art, too, has an important place in ...

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