Tests have confirmed that a painting found in a church is actually a long-lost Botticelli-era masterpiece. First hung in the Saint Félix Church, in the Champigny-en-Beauce village of France’s ...

A painting in a Catholic church in central France, ... The original by the hand of Botticelli himself, “Virgin and Child with the Young St. John the Baptist” (1490–95), ...

In advance of Old North’s 300th anniversary in 2023, the church began exploring opportunities to bring this centuries-old work to light. It tapped the historic-preservation firm Building ...

PARKERSBURG — St. Margaret-Mary Catholic Church in Parkersburg acquired two pieces of art over the past few years. One is the painting “Madonna of the Rosary with St. Dominic and St. Catherine ...

Experts use sponges, seaweed, and science to conserve Maxo Vanka's historic murals at St. Nicholas Church, revealing lost details after decades of decay.

Founded by St Wilfrid in AD 674, the original church at Hexham was constructed from stones taken from Hadrian's Wall. All that remains of the original building is the crypt. Much of the present ...

Building a medieval castle from scratch 04:02. Crime-solving techniques applied to a medieval illuminated manuscript in Paris may have solved a centuries-old puzzle - the true identity of a ...

The area includes the original site of St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of the first Black churches in Texas, founded in 1867. A cornerstone of the church, dated 1875, was ...

The painting, a copy of Botticelli’s ‘Virgin Mary, Infant Christ, and St. John the Baptist’, painted between 1490 and 1495 presents the Virgin Mary holding the son of God as a baby while a ...