Frescoes or murals by famous painters
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Assisi | Cimabue, Giotto, Simone Martini and Pietro Lorenzetti; Santa Maria degli Angeli: Johann Friedrich Overback and Pietro Perugino | |
| Bauhaus Sites | murals by Oskar Schlemmer at the Bauhaus University | |
| El Escurial | Luca Giordano | |
| Ferapontov Monastery | By Dionisius (c. 1440 ? 1502), head of the Moscow school of icon painters at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries. | |
| Florence | Dome of Duomo by Giorgio Vasari | |
| Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz | Castle by Franz Anton Maulbertsch | |
| Great Spa Towns of Europe | Karlovy Vary: "in 1885, the Municipal Theatre saw the visit [of] Gustav Klimt, the Austrian painter who also created, together with Franz Matsch, the theatre's hand-painted curtain and mural paintings". (Nomination File, p. 146) | |
| Hospicio Cabañas | Orozco | |
| Mantua and Sabbioneta | Mantua: Camera degli Sposi by Andrea Mantegna in the Ducal Palace, Frescoes in the Te Palace by Giulio Romano | |
| Mexico City and Xochimilco | Rivera | |
| Naples | Saint Martin's Certosa by Luca Giordano, and remains of frescoes at Maschio Angionino by Giotto. | |
| Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles | Giotto’s fresco cycle in the Scrovegni Chapel | |
| Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) | "Triumph of Death, a fresco by Bonamico Buffalmacco at the Campo Santo, c. 1350." (Official description – Criterion ii) – "The earliest, attributed to Francesco Traini, were painted 1336/41 in the south-western corner. The Last Judgement, Hell, Triumph of Death, and the Thebaid (stories of the Desert Fathers), usually attributed to Buonamico di Martino da Firenze, detto il Buffalmacco, were painted in the years after the Black Death. The cycle of frescoes continues with the Stories of the Old Testament by Benozzo Gozzoli (15th century) that were situated in the north gallery, while in the south arcade were the Stories of Pisan Saints, by Andrea Bonaiuti, Antonio Veneziano and Spinello Aretino (between 1377 and 1391), and the Stories of Job, by Taddeo Gaddi (end of 14th century). In the same time, in the north gallery were the Stories of the Genesis by Piero di Puccio." | |
| Prague | Philosophical Hall of the library of the Strahov Monastery by Franz Anton Maulbertsch | |
| Ravenna | Basilica of San Vitale: "The Baroque frescoes on the dome were made (...) by S. Barozzi, Ubaldo Gandolfi and Jacopo Guarana." | |
| Rome | Andrea Pozzo: Corridor of Casa Professa, Ceiling of Saint Ignatius's Church, Refectory of Holy Heart's Convent of Trinità dei Monti | |
| Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy | Sacro Monte of Varallo - Frescoes by Gaudenzio Ferrari | |
| Salzburg | Dome of the Kajetanerkirche by Paul Troger | |
| San Gimignano | Collegial Church by Benozzo Gozzoli and Domenico Ghirlandaio, Saint Augustin's Church by Benozzo Gozzoli | |
| San Miguel de Allende | Siqueros mural in one of the rooms of the ?Escuela de Bellas Artes? | |
| Santa Maria delle Grazie | Leonardo da Vinci | |
| Siena | Public Palace by Simone Martini, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Duccio di Buoninsegna, Sodoma, Vecchietta and Domenico Beccafumi, Cathedral by Pinturicchio, Santa Maria della Scala Hospital by Vecchietta, Saint Augustin's Church by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Francesco di Giorgio Martini and Luca Signorelli, Arch of the Two Gates by Baldassarre Peruzzi, Santa Maria dei Servi Basilica by Pietro Lorenzetti, Saint Francis's Church by Pietro Lorenzetti and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Saint Bernardin's Oratory by Sodoma and Domenico Beccafumi, Santa Caterina in Fontebranda Oratory by Sodoma, Saint Dominic's Basilica by Sodoma | |
| Stoclet House | Gustav Klimt | |
| Strasbourg | The Aubette Palace was decorated in the 1920s by Hans Arp, Theo van Doesburg, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp. | |
| Urbino | The 14th century Oratory of St John the Baptist "is best known for its late Gothic style fresco cycle (1416) by the brothers Lorenzo and Jacopo Salimbeni." | |
| Val d'Orcia | The frescoes in the refectory of Sant'Anna in Camprena are by Il Sodoma (1502-1503). (Nomination file, p. 106) On the back wall of the church of San Michele in Montalcino you can see a fresco divided into three scenes by Pietro Lorenzetti, his last certain work. The frescoes, of great scope, discovered around 1876, were executed in 1345, as reported by the inscription under the central panel of the Annunciation. | |
| Val di Noto | The ballroom of the Palazzo Biscari has frescoes painted by Matteo Desiderato and Sebastiano Lo Monaco. (Wikipedia) | |
| Valletta | Valetta Cathedral by Mattia Preti | |
| Vatican City | Vatican Palaces by Michelangelo Buonarroti, Raffaello Sanzio, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Beato Angelico, Giulio Romano, Pietro Perugino, Sandro Botticelli, Luca Signorelli, Piero di Cosimo, Pinturicchio and Bramantino | |
| Venice and its Lagoon | Scuola di San Rocco by Tintoretto, Saint Sebastian's Church by Paolo Veronese | |
| Vicenza and the Palladian Villas | Villa Barbaro in Maser, by Veronese | |
| Vienna | Gustav Klimt, Beethoven Frieze at the Secession; Dome of Jesuit Church by Andrea Pozzo | |
| Wachau Cultural Landscape | frescoes by Daniel Gran in Kloster Und | |
| White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal | Cathedral of the Assumption: ?Last Judgment? by Andrei Rublev and Daniil Chernii | |
| Würzburg Residence | Tiepolo |
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