While the memetastic story of a Spanish grandma making some “edits” to her church’s fresco was taking the world (or at least the Internet) by storm a few months ago, another story about Spanish church ...

Cotonou (AFP) – On a blue and yellow background, the graffiti artist retouches a spray-painted image of the half-man, half-shark statue of King Behanzin, one of the stolen treasures returned to Benin ...

Centuries after their rediscovery during the Italian Renaissance, much of the tufa rock within the miles of catacomb tunnels that lay outside the city of Rome remain covered in smoke, algae, dirt and ...

Most accounts of the history of graffiti have the art form really taking off in the 1970s, but art historian Charlotte Guichard dates its emergence to slightly earlier — the 16th century. Guichard ...

The South African artist appealed to the authorities to have the graffiti removed. Workers try to remove graffiti on the Triumphs and Laments fresco which was completed along the banks of Rome’s Tiber ...

A unique gift given to Pope Francis by head of the Cyprus Institute Costas Papanicolas during his visit to the Vatican in May offers fascinating new perspectives on the importance and meaning of ...

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