A 400 year old painting of a nativity scene has been discovered hidden under another work of art, just weeks before Christmas. Experts from Northumbria Unviversity were examining a badly damaged ...

This Christmas season, the Brigham Young University Museum of Art will welcome back one of Utah artist Brian Kershisnik’s newest and largest works, “Nativity.” The painting will be on public display ...

Just in time for Christmas, a long-hidden Nativity scene has surfaced after laying concealed for centuries under another painting. On its surface, the artwork shows the beheading of St. John the ...

In recent years, X-ray imaging has revealed overpainted underdrawings, details and drafts in works by such luminaries as Vermeer, Artemisia Gentileschi, Edgar Degas, René Magritte, Pablo Picasso and ...

Time and overly enthusiastic cleaning had dealt enough damage to Piero Della Francesca’s masterful nativity painting, that when the National Gallery acquired it in 1874, the U.K. Parliament inquired ...

A Nativity scene in Cincinnati, Ohio has caused a stir in the community and led to objections from religious groups. Jasen and Amanda Dixon built a display featuring a stable of zombies — undead Mary, ...

The Ulster Museum in Belfast is giving visitors the Christmas gift of an “exceptionally rare” nativity painting. The Nativity, an exceptionally rare work by Italian artist Baldassare Peruzzi, goes on ...

A temporary export bar has been placed on a painting of the nativity valued at £460,000. The artwork, painted by Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi in Rome, is thought to date from the 1510s. It is one of the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

What other artist catches the frigid beauty of bleak midwinter like Pieter Bruegel the Elder? In this landscape, it's as though we were standing at a slight elevation looking down over a prosperous ...

Just before Christmas, a hidden Nativity scene has been discovered after being tucked away under another painting for centuries. The artwork, which is believed to be around 400 years old and is ...

A temporary export bar has been placed on a painting of the nativity valued at £460,000. The artwork, painted by Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi in Rome, is thought to date from the 1510s. It is one of the ...