During the 11th century, an unknown, lowly medieval mason held an important job ... until it was recently spotted by an art historian during a stone-by-stone survey of the cathedral.

Does this Romanian church's medieval wall painting depict a UFO-style flying saucer? Tourists visiting the church in Medieval Citadel in Sighisoara, Transylvania have been left puzzled by the ...

A medieval wall painting uncovered at Jersey's Mont Orgueil Castle should be open to the public this summer. The painting was uncovered in the Medieval Great Hall by archaeologists working on the ...

A medieval wall painting uncovered in a Wiltshire church is of "national and international significance". Peter Martindale, the conservator who revealed the work in St Mary's Church, Alton Barnes ...

Tourists baffled as 400-year-old painting boasts a mysterious object ... The 400-year work housed in the Monastery Church in the Medieval Citadel in Sighisoara, Transylvania has left tourists ...

The painting is a representation of the death of the Virgin Mary - a scene known as "Dormitio Virginis" - by Andrea Di Bartolo, a Sienese School painter who died in Siena in 1428. It was stolen from ...

A LONG lost Italian masterpiece found hanging above an oven in an elderly woman's kitchen has made the pensioner an instant multimillionaire. The painting, by the 13th-century pre-Renaissance ...

Officials in France are blocking the export of a remarkably rare medieval painting that was auctioned off after being discovered hanging in an elderly French woman's kitchen. The 10-inch panel ...

The medieval mason was not a monk but a highly skilled lay craftsman who combined the roles of architect, builder, craftsman, designer and engineer. Using only a set of compasses, a set square and ...