The background was a blue sky covered in stars and birds, giving the impression of a tent erected out in the open. In the ...

Against a bright red background, there are numerous figures ... in their hands and slaughtered goats on their shoulders. The ...

Image The restorers dabbed lightly at the vast blue background that surrounds a lone Christ. The fresco’s inaccessibility — the convent is still cloistered, so the friars have little contact ...