1.   In Mediterranean countries, particularly southern Italy, the triforium is omitted and replaced by solid wall decorated in mosaic or fresco painting.

2.   The maximum possible wall and vault area inside is covered by mosaic or, in poorer churches, by fresco paintings.

3.   The church dates from the eleventh century and is magnificently decorated by fresco paintings in the narthex, dome, apse and on the walls.

4.   Its walls are faced with white marble and the interior is richly decorated with fresco painting.

5.   Inside are fresco paintings.

6.   The interior was richly decorated with fresco paintings but much of this has been lost.

7.   In the event, it is sweet geometry in dusky colors nodding toward Italian Renaissance fresco painting.

8.   One of the founders of Accademia Caerite, Sheilah Rechtschaffer, has helped to launch Accademia Toscana for artists who want to study fresco painting.

9.   It was a tempera painting, rather than a true fresco painting on wet plaster.

10.   Still, Toker argues, there is no proof the fresco painting is a self portrait.