fresco

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One of the leader’s admirers, a restorer working on a fresco at Rome’s Basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina, etched her likeness onto the face of an angel holding up a map of Italy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

Go the Capitol rotunda and look up at the dome, where Constantino Brumidi’s fresco The Apotheosis of Washington, painted during the Civil War, shows Washington in heaven, flanked by goddesses.

From Slate • Feb. 16, 2026

However the fresco at the centre of this controversy was not old - it was painted in 2000 and was not heritage protected.

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026

An artist who restored a fresco in a church in central Rome with a likeness of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has wiped out his own artwork after it sparked outrage.

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

An altar originally stood in front of the fresco, marking the transition between the upper and lower portions.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton