It was the churches and pictures of Italy that began it-the Frescoes in the cloisters, the patient sculpture, telling of the devotion of lives, even the patient needlework on the altars.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black
The fourth Duke has left much to show for the quarter of a million he lavished upon the building-exquisite wood carving, Frescoes, marbles, and canvases.
"In the Border Country"
W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett
The ceiling of the salon was decorated with those homely Frescoes so common in Italy, which in this case consisted of four portraits-Garibaldi, Cavour, Mazzini, and-to their surprise-Lord John himself.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond