Editing Fresco (section)

===Middle Ages===
[[File:Boyana Church Mural Paintings.jpg|upright=0.9|right|thumb|Interior view with the frescoes dating back to 1259, [[Boyana Church]] in [[Sofia]], [[UNESCO]] [[World Heritage List]] landmark.]]
[[File:044 Absis de Sant Climent de Taüll, el Crist en majestat.jpg|upright=0.9|right|thumb|[[Pantocrator]] from [[Sant Climent de Taüll]], in [[MNAC Barcelona]]]]
[[File:Beli andjeo2.jpg|upright=0.9|right|thumb|[[Myrrhbearers]] on Christ's Grave, c 1235 AD, [[Mileševa monastery]] in [[Serbia]]n]]
The late [[Medieval]] period and the [[Renaissance]] saw the most prominent use of fresco, particularly in Italy, where most churches and many government buildings still feature fresco decoration. This change coincided with the reevaluation of murals in the [[liturgy]].<ref>{{cite journal| url = https://www.academia.edu/8526688| title = Péter Bokody, ''Mural Painting as a Medium: Technique, Representation and Liturgy'', Image and Christianity: Visual Media in the Middle Ages, Pannonhalma Abbey, 2014, 136-151| journal = Péter Bokody (Ed.). Image and Christianity: Visual Media in the Middle Ages. Exhibition Catalog. Pannonhalma: Pannonhalma Abbey, 2014| date = January 2014| last1 = Bokody| first1 = Peter}}</ref> [[Romanesque church]]es in [[Catalonia]] were richly painted in 12th and 13th century, with both decorative and educational—for the illiterate faithfuls—roles, as can be seen in the [[Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya|MNAC]] in [[Barcelona]], where is kept a large collection of Catalan romanesque art.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Español|first1=Francesca|last2=Yarza|first2=Joaquín|others=Fotografies de Ramon Manent, Pere Pascual i Rosina Ramírez|title=El romànic català|date=2007|publisher=Angle Editorial|location=Barcelona|isbn=9788496970090|edition=1.|language=ca}}</ref> In Denmark too, [[Church frescos in Denmark|church wall paintings]] or ''kalkmalerier'' were widely used in the Middle Ages (first Romanesque, then Gothic) and can be seen in some 600 Danish churches as well as in churches in the south of Sweden, which was Danish at the time.<ref>[http://www.natmus.dk/cons/walls/chrchpnt.htm Kirsten Trampedach, "Introduction to Danish wall paintings - Conservation ethics and methods of treatment from the National Museum of Denmark"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091124021603/http://www.natmus.dk/cons/walls/chrchpnt.htm |date=24 November 2009 }}. Retrieved 2 March 2010.</ref>

One of the rare examples of [[Islamic]] fresco painting can be seen in [[Qasr Amra]], the desert palace of the Umayyads in the 8th century Magotez.