After turning Charles VII's head in the 1440s, Agnès Sorel became his mistress and close advisor as well the era's great ...

For centuries, parishioners at a church in a small French town thought that a painting in their collection was a 19th-century copy of a 15th-century artwork by Sandro Botticelli. Now, a new ...

French Medieval wall paintings hidden for more than 500 years ... The late 13th century paintings were whitewashed following a mid 15th-century fire at the cathedral and subsequently boxed behind ...

After a mid 15th-century fire the paintings were whitewashed over which ... but protecting them in the French Revolution. Rediscovered by chance in 1980 by a priest using the space for storage ...