The paintings, which depict stories of the saints as well as the cycle of Christ's passion, are thought to be only one of ...

A church in North Yorkshire is planning a bid to the National Lottery Heritage Fund in an effort to preserve incredibly rare ...

Archaeologists have put together a funding bid to restore rare medieval wall paintings in a church in a North Yorkshire town. The designs at St Peter and St. Paul's in Pickering were originally ...

The age of All Saints Church has never been properly established, but its walls are covered in its history. Read more: The lost Cambridgeshire village that was once home to more than 200 people ...

Medieval wall paintings considered the finest of their type surviving from late 13th-century France, ... Penitent, he threw away his church keys which were providentially swallowed by a fish, ...

Wall paintings were also points of meditation and devotion, which existed to reinforce the words delivered from the pulpit. The themes painted on to church walls may be grouped under a few headings: ...

Indigenous symbols like a feather headdress, an axe and a shield have been found under layers of lime plaster at open-air chapels in a convent just south of Mexico City, experts announced Monday.

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

How icons are made. Iconographer Elias Katsaros doesn't actually paint the icons directly onto the wall. It's more like wallpaper, the Rev. Peter Pier of St. John Chrysostom Antiochian Orthodox ...

Archaeology & History Forgotten Paintings Rediscovered in Mexican Church Restoration After 80 Years of Obscurity. The hagiographic works are rarely found in the Michoacán region.

The paintings, which depict stories of the saints as well as the cycle of Christ's passion, are thought to be only one of five remaining sets of medieval church wall paintings in England. The ...