Archinect - News 2024-11-24T12:13:58-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/105400021/medieval-frescoes-uncovered-and-displayed-in-rome Medieval Frescoes Uncovered and Displayed in Rome Nicholas Korody 2014-07-30T14:07:00-04:00 >2014-08-04T21:56:12-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/p4/p4p9lea1md298g33.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Rome may be a mecca for Medieval art, but it isn&rsquo;t every day that conservationists there discover a trove of long-lost frescoes dating to the 1240s. That&rsquo;s what happened a few years ago in the Gothic Hall of Santi Quattro Coronati convent, after a restoration project funded by ARCUS began in 1996. This summer, for the first time ever, those artworks can be seen by the public [...] [The frescoes] reveal how cardinals&rsquo; palaces were &ldquo;places from which to launch very clear political messages.&rdquo;</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>