The restoration of one of the world's most famous fresco paintings - Giotto's masterpiece in the Scrovegni chapel in Padua - is nearing completion and will be open to the public again on 18 March. The ...

ROME - A smirking horned devil exists in the frescoed clouds of a Giotto work in the famed Assisi basilica, an Italian art historian said Tuesday — a tantalizing detail that apparently went unnoticed ...

A UK judge says a Giotto painting worth £10 million ($13.2 million) isn’t going anywhere but home. In a decision delivered on Monday, Judge Justice Carr upheld the Arts Council England’s refusal to ...

Restoration experts have used ultra violet rays to shed new light on masterpieces by one of the Western World's greatest painters. The technique was used on works by the 14th century artist Giotto di ...

Using ultra-violet light, restorers at Florence’s Santa Croce church unearthed a hidden treasure—original details of some paintings by Giotto, a father of the Italian Renaissance. When Florence’s ...

Fourteenth-century frescoes in the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi have been damaged by over-ambitious restorations, Italian daily La Repubblica reports. Experts claim the frescoes have been ...

By Nick Squires 06 November 2011 • 11:04pm The discovery of the face, in a fresco which depicts the death of St Francis, was made by Chiara Frugoni, a medievalist and an expert on the saint Credit: ...

Frescoes painted by Giotto, the 14th Century Italian master, have been brought to life with the use of ultraviolet technology. A combination picture shows an original Giotto painting (L) and the same ...

Restoration experts have used ultra violet rays to shine an astonishing new light on the work of one of the most important painters in the history of Western art. The paintings of Giotto di Bondone in ...