The purchase was made possible after an export license for the Romanesque carving was deferred by the UK authorities last year

The church, which has undergone an extensive renovation, welcomed more than six months’ worth of visitors in the first three weeks after the work was completed

Image of semi-naked Christ by Salustiano García prompts petition while LGBTQ groups defend the work

The 12th-century walrus ivory sculpture represents “one of the most culturally and aesthetically significant objects” the UK government’s reviewing committee has handled in the past five years

Visitors to the Italian city have a rare chance to glimpse the inlaid marble floor, begun in the 14th century

Remarkable photographs of thousands of church interiors in rural England and Wales have been brought together in this landmark publication

No depictions exist of St Wilfrid of York, who was a well-travelled, pugnacious and ambitious young man and founder of the seventh-century Ripon Cathedral

Westminster Abbey, which is directly under the monarch’s jurisdiction, currently refuses to return the holy tablet

As Russia's war continues, conservation is proving impossible—but heritage groups, priests and volunteers are doing their best to document the destruction

An artist from Siena could have travelled to Africa in the 14th century to create triptych, which is in a remote monastery in northern Ethiopia

This in-depth survey suggests that the development of Italian church altarpieces can be understood through the themes of "icon" and "narrative"

Exploration of the Islamic building through its decorations and objects fills a gap in the field

Francis I of Brittany had his first wife painted over in a medieval prayer book before giving it to his new spouse, research at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum shows

New research for British Museum exhibition means panels depicting St Thomas Becket's healing miracles will be correctly reassembled after centuries in the wrong order

Residents of a Surrey village are piecing together the history of the colourful and detailed paintings done by a local woman more than 100 years ago

New examinations of John the Baptist wall paintings in Augsburg cathedral date them to more than 1,000 years ago

Last week of once in a lifetime exhibition displaying the Griffoni Polyptych—a 16-piece panel painting dating from 1472—at Bologna’s Palazzo Fava

Art history scholars disagree over possible discovery of work by Renaissance master, which is owned by private collector

Survey including 91 illustrations shows how the artist used the winged gods prolifically in his work

New Yorkers are invited to leave a remembrance of loved ones at Scherezade Garcia’s ofrenda at Green-Wood Cemetery

Hagia Sophia and the Chora Church will remain “open to all”, Turkish government promises—but restricted access may not be the primary worry

A note was left at the scene by the perpetrators saying they “did not accept” that the saint should be “represented in such a way”

Eike Schmidt says up to a thousand works are languishing in state-run stores all over Italy

We asked artists, museum directors, art historians and public figures who love art to pick the images that mean something to them at this time

Art history removes the numinous from art. At the Vatican’s Covid-19 blessing we saw it invoked again

The extra-textual decoration of medieval illuminated manuscripts are full of clues about sections of society normally overlooked by historians

The Spanish artist’s extraordinary paintings of tortured bodies and tormented souls

Finnish artist Jani Leinonen has asked museum to remove the work—with no response

These tiny masterpieces are both pious and playful