Ceiling fresco

Japanese: 天井画 - てんじょうが（英語表記）ceiling fresco

Paintings that are painted on the ceilings of temples, palaces, etc. As an extension of wall paintings, they have been often painted since ancient times in both the East and the West. The oldest examples are found in Paleolithic cave paintings, but the most famous is Michelangelo's ceiling painting in the Sistine Chapel. In Japan, from the Azuchi-Momoyama period onwards, the ceilings of castles and temples were decorated with vivid colors or ink. Many temple ceiling paintings are ink-wash drawings of cloud dragons. (→ Sotto in su)

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Japanese:

寺院や宮殿などの天井に描かれている絵。壁画の延長として洋の東西を問わず古くよりしばしば描かれた。その最古の例は旧石器時代の洞窟画にもみられるが，最も著名なものとしてはミケランジェロのシスティナ礼拝堂の天井画がある。日本でも安土桃山時代以後，極彩色もしくは墨で城郭や寺院の天井を飾った。寺院の天井画では水墨画による雲竜図が多い。 (→ソット・イン・ス ) 　

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