More frescoes revealed in Roman Palazzo

Frescoes painted over centuries ago are being revealed as part of a €35 million refurbishment of the Palazzo Silvestri-Rivaldi in Rome.

In a crumbling and abandoned Rome palazzo restorers are scraping grey paint off the walls to reveal brightly coloured frescoes of pagan goddesses, bloody battles and proud Roman emperors. “We knew this place was famous for beautiful frescoes in the Renaissance, and we are now discovering really high quality 16th-century work from the school of Raphael,” Daniela Porro, the city’s chief archaeologist, said. Source: The Times