The Hamilton Kerr Institute team spent over a decade photographing wall paintings of Saint Maurille's life and miracles.

The 13th-century paintings discovered by a priest in 1980 have been fully restored depicting the life of Saint Maurille.

Researchers from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) made several significant ...

A rare 13th-century Bible could return to its ancestral home in Salisbury Cathedral more than 700 years after it was written. It is one of only six manuscripts attributed to the Sarum Master ...

“Parisian limestone is very porous. It’s full of cavities that had collected 850 years of dirt, which was finally removed. The cathedral now looks as bright and fresh as when it first opened in the ...

Medieval wall paintings considered the finest of their type surviving from late 13th-century France, with close style links ...

It has taken hundreds of compagnons, France's artists and craftspeople, to pull off a restoration so fast, so meticulous, and so true to Notre Dame's past.

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A rare 13th-century Bible will return to its ancestral home in Salisbury Cathedral more than 700 years after it was written, thanks to the help of The Independent. In an early Christmas present, our ...