In the early years of the 20th century, four painters left behind a drab grey Presbyterian Scotland for the exciting ...

Feb. 18 is the feast of Blessed Fra Angelico, a Dominican friar and painter of the early Italian Renaissance. When Pope John ...

Century Christian Fresco Covered by Islamic 'Altar Tent' Discovered, May Have Been a Trophy Seized From Battle Islam and ...

Who owns the Guelph Treasure, worth millions? The question seems open again after new documents raised suspicions of ...

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to ...

Hundreds of fragments of a medieval stained glass window have been returned to a Lincolnshire church after nearly 80 years. The 14th Century window from St Andrew's Church in Heckington was ...

Harold Godwinson was the “last Anglo-Saxon King of England,” the university said, and the exact location of the royal home depicted in the tapestry had never been proven, considered “lost” to time — ...

The woven art tells the story of the conquest of England, depicting scenes of battle and celebration ... a lecturer in medieval archaeology at Newcastle University, said in the release.

Harold Godwinson (Harold II) ruled for only nine months in 1066 before he was killed in the critical Battle of Hastings ... This famed piece of Medieval embroidery depicts the Norman Conquest ...

This tapestry was first recorded in 1476 as part of the inventory of the Bayeux Cathedral, but it was likely commissioned in the 1070s by Bishop Odo, a close relative of William the Conqueror, to ...