Against his will Michelangelo was assigned to paint in fresco scenes from the creation.
Day after day, I stood in the nearly deserted chapel behind the main altar of Santo Stefano and soaked in the detail of Lippi's six panels of fresco scenes, his lunettes and the large stained-glass window he designed.
This is not just a matter of the al-fresco scenes, or of our proximity to the dancers, near enough to hear them pant.
St. Benedict's cave and the lower church of Sacro Speco contain 13th-century frescoes; scenes from the life of Christ by painters of the 13th- and 14th-century Sienese school are in the upper church.
On St James's Street, the exploding bins are threatening the strip's al fresco dining scene.
The script is salted with profanities, while the plot finds room for brief moments of nudity and an animalistic al-fresco sex scene.
A long, congested stairway descending from the back of the Galatasaray High School, known as Cezayir (Algeria) Street is bursting with restaurant, offering one of the city's best al fresco dining scenes.
The six main frescoes represent scenes from the life of St. Francis of Assisi, Sassetti's patron saint.
In 1481 82 under Pope Sixtus IV, the uncle of Julius, the chapel had been completed and the walls decorated with frescoes depicting scenes from the life of Moses and the life of Christ executed by Botticelli, Ghirlandajo, Perugino, and others.
Ghirlandaio's first major commissioned works were the two frescoes depicting scenes from the life of St. Fina, painted in 1475 in the Chapel of Santa Fina in the Collegiata at San Gimignano, near Florence.
