FRESCO - HISTORY:

CHRONOLOGY OF MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS IN FRESCO PAINTING

30,000 BC Horse panel in the Chauvet Cave, France
20,000-10,000 BC Cave paintings at Altamira, Spain, and Lascaux, France
15,000-10,000 BCCave paintings in La Magdalaine Cave, Tarn, France, and in Addaura Cave, Palermo, Italy
1550-1400 BC The Toreador and The Prince of Gigli, Palace of Minos, Knossos, Crete 12th century BC Tomb of Anhour Khaou, Thebes, Egypt
470 BC Tomb at Pæstum, a Greek colony in southern Italy
100 BC Tomb at Liao-yang, Manchuria, China
0-200 Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii, Italy
250-400 Christian catacombs, Rome, Italy
400-600 Tombs near P'yongyang, Korea AD 500-700 Caves at Ajantâ, India
500-800 Temple at Tun-Huang, Kansu province, China
500-1300 Frescoes created in what is now Russia, Ukraine, and the Balkans AD 675 Tomb of Takamatsuzuka, Japan
800 Jaina temple at Sittannavasal, Madras, India
8th century Chaan Muan in Battle, Bonampak, Mexico
1123 Christ in Majesty, Church of San Clemente, Tahull, Spain 14th century Paradise of Tejaprabha Buddha, Kuang Sheng SSU, Shansi, China
1240 Birth of Cenni di Pepe called Cimabue
1277-1280 Fresco paintings by Cimabue in the basilica of S Francesco in Assisi.
1305-06 Giotto's The Lamentation, Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy
1320 Anastasis, Church of the Savior, Istanbul, Turkey
1325-50 Francesco Traini's Triumph of Death, The Camposanto, Pisa, Italy
1338-40 Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Good Government in the City, Good Government in the Country, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy
1400-55 Fra Angelico's The Annunciation, San Marco, Florence, Italy
1425 Masaccio's The Tribute Money, Brancacci Chapel, Florence, Italy
1452-59 Piero della Francesca's San Francesco, Florence, Italy
1477 March 6 Birth of Michelangelo Buonarroti at Caprese (Arezzo, Italy)
1481 Leonardo da Vinci starts working on the ‘Adorazione del magi’.
October 27 A contract was drawn for 10 frescoes in the sixteen chapel with several artist including Botticelli Ghiraldaio and Perugino.
1508 Contract with Michelangelo and first payment to Michelangelo for his work in the sixteen chapel
1509 August Michelangelo finishes the frescoes in the first half of the vault
1512 October 31 Michelangelo completes the decorations in the second half of the vault
1510-11 Raphael's The School of Athens, Vatican Palace, Rome, Italy
1536 Michelangelo begins to paint the Giudizio Universale on the wall of the alter.
1700 The Fort of Amer, Jaipur, India
1731 Tiepolo's frescoes at Cappella Colleoni, Bergamo, Italy
1737 Tiepolo's frescoes at San Ambrogio, Milan, Italy
1750-52 Tiepolo's frescoes at The Episcopal Palace, Würzburg, Germany 1864-65 Constantino Brumidi's The Apotheosis of George Washington, U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C.
1923-30 Diego Rivera's frescoes in the Ministry of Education building, Mexico City
1926 Jose Clemente Orozco's Cortes and Malinche and the Trench, National Preparatory School, Mexico City
1930-31 Orozco's frescoes at Pomona College, Claremont, California, and at the New School for Social Research, New York City
1930-35 Rivera's frescoes at the National Palace, Mexico City
1932 Rivera's Detroit Industry,Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
1932-34 Orozco's Catharsis, National Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City, and his frescoes in the Baker Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
1947-48 Orozco's National Allegory, The Normal School, Mexico City
1952-53 Rufino Tamayo's Birth of Nationality and Mexico Today, National Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City
1958 Tamayo's Prometheus Bringing Fire to Man, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris, France
1979 Beginning of the restoration of the frescoes of the sixteen chapel at the entrance wall
1980 Restoration of the frescoes of Michelangelo (completed in 1984)
1985 Beginning of the cleaning of the frescoes in the vault ended in 1989
1987 Mark Balma's frescoes at St.Mary's University of Minnesota, Performing Arts Center, Winona, Minnesota
1988 Balma's Lady of the Lake,Huber Funeral Home, Excelsior, Minnesota
1990 Beginning of thecleaning of the Giudizio Universale of the sixteen chapel with the restoration being completed in April 1994
1993-94 Balma's Seven Virtues,University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1995 Balma's frescoes at The Cathedral of St. Paul, St. Paul, Minnesota

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