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), ...

The altar painting at East Walle Lutheran Church, rural Thompson, ... "Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane," was a direct copy of the 1890 original by German artist Heinrich Hoffman.

Art History A Long-Lost Painting from Botticelli’s Studio Is Rediscovered in a French Church. The painting, long thought to be a 19th-century copy, will be displayed alongside the original ...

In the original Maratta painting, titled “The Holy Night” or “The Nativity,” small angels peek past Mary to gaze at the baby. In the church’s version, the angels have been removed.

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 ...

Rare thatched church with original medieval wall paintings hidden in rural village Some of the Medieval paintings that covered the walls remarkably still exist today. Bookmark. Share; ...

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 ...

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 ...