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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