Henry Bird (artist)
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Henry Bird was an English artist from Northampton who painted murals and female nudes. He went to the Royal College of Art and then designed sets at the Old Vic, Sadler's Wells and Embassy Theatre. He taught art history and drawing at the University College of Wales and the Northampton School of Art.
The Conversion of St Paul, a mural by Henry Bird painted in 1973, in St Margaret's Church, Denton in Northamptonshire
St Andrew and St Stephen on the rood screen painted 1935 at All Saints' Church, Earls Barton
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A mural is any piece of graphic artwork that is painted or applied directly to a wall, ceiling or other permanent substrate. Mural techniques include fresco, mosaic, graffiti and marouflage.
Ceiling painting, by Jean-André Rixens. Salle des Illustres, Le Capitole, Toulouse, France
Prehistoric Egyptian mural painted on a Nekhen tomb wall c. 3,500 B.C. with aspects in the Gerzeh culture style
Jataka tales from the Ajanta Caves, present-day Maharashtra, India, 7th century CE.
Murals from the 16th century at the St. Lawrence Church of Lohja