1. Ancient
Egyptians
Ancient
Romans
Medieval
European
5th
– 15th
Century
Renaissance
Italy
Victorian
19th
Century
20th
Century
USA
A common type of
Roman Mural is a
Mosaic.
The Egyptians carved out
pictures into the stone then
painted them with natural
paints.
3500 BC – 500AD
Denmark has the
most amount of
medieval wall
paintings in Europe.
Most Victorian Mural
were painted onto the
ceiling and where
light and heavenly.
They are painted
using spray cans,
and usually just
graffiti writing.
1450 - 1550
They usually painted
in Fresco of people
and every day life.

2. Egyptian Murals
• The Egyptians used Gold and precious stones.
• Gold was used as it was one of the most important material that
they used in their murals.
• Slaves made the Murals.
• Slaves carved a picture into a wall and painted it with fruits and oils
which were made into a type of paint.
• The purpose for creating a mural was to keep a record of what life
was like.
• Murals were often created in Tombs.
• Public murals usually intend to make a political or cultural statement
through art.
• The murals would tell the history about romantic stories, the kings,
leaders, Egyptian people, so basically the murals would have story
of how the Egyptians lived their lives.

3. Roman Murals
• The murals were made with tiles and were called Mosaics.
• The murals were colourful and usually showed people and everyday
life.
• The Romans used Mosaics in their murals and the materials they
used were small pieces of colour red glass, square tiles, stone, and
many other materials that they found useful to us in their mosaics
• Unlike during other times murals were created inside buildings
rather then on external walls.
• The process of creating a mural was to design a piece of art and
enlarged the art by drawing the outline onto a square tile that was
hand made then they used a specific glue called mortar to finalize
the artwork. This took a very long time because in those days they
didn’t have the resources like we do now. Unfortunately we do not
know the name of the artiest that created this fine looking piece of
art.

4. Victorian Murals
• Victorian would paint there Murals with a brush.
• There pictures were light and heavenly.
• They usually were of woman and angels.
• They usually painted them on the ceiling.
• They usually used gentle lines but they sometimes used reds and
sharp lines.
• They were mainly used for decoration and to tell a story or preserve
history.