A rare 600-year-old fresco by the Renaissance master Fra Angelico, considered to be one of the painter’s earliest works, has been painstakingly restored after centuries of neglect. The painting, ...

When Florence was hit by disastrous floods in 1966, art conservation experts rushed to the city to save as many priceless pieces of art as they could. Now Florentine scientists have developed a tool ...

A long-forgotten fresco by the early Renaissance master Fra Angelico has emerged from centuries of neglect in a secluded Tuscan convent, newly restored just in time for a landmark exhibition in ...

To step into the studio of artist Luca Battini is to step back in time. There has been fierce competition to appear in the fresco It is a history lesson in how the great Renaissance painters created ...

>In a world of endless computer-generated artistic possibilities, ancient arts such as floorcloths, gilding and fresco might seem obsolete, even lost. Yet, despite today's sophisticated technology, ...

Renaissance-style frescoes are rare in this country. Yet one hangs on a wall in Nashua’s community theater. At the Court Street building, summer campers dance and run through the hallways. The room is ...

Workers at the famed Italian museum discovered two long-lost 16th-century frescoes while conducting renovations. Pictured here, a life-sized portrait of Grand Duke Cosimo II de’ Medici depicts the ...