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Article: Pigments of imagination; Artist brings St. Raphael students closer to Greek, Roman history
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- The Sun - Naperville (IL)
- Article date:
- October 26, 2001
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Sixth-graders Dan Vogel, left, and T.J. Mifsud paint with gesso and watercolors to create representations of ancient frescoes after an art presentation Wednesday at St. Raphael School. Artist Angela Graefenhain offered a lesson on Greek and Roman art.
Hidden for years beneath the ashes from the volcanic Mount Vesuvius was the city of Pompeii, near Naples, Italy, seemingly buried for all time until archeologists uncovered the once-thriving port city in the mid-1700s. What they found on the walls of many of the homes, preserved by layers of volcanic ash, were beautiful murals, known as frescoes.
St. Raphael School sixth-graders Wednesday received a lesson in the art of the early Greek and ...