A giant statue built to honour a saintly 13-year-old girl macheted to death by a rapist is to be rebuilt after furious followers said it looked like a hatchet faced…
A religious shrine dating back to the 19th century has been mocked after a botched restoration attempt left the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ with cartoonish-looking faces. The shrine, located…
Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered rare, nearly life-sized frescoes depicting initiation rites of Dionysus, the ancient Greek god of wine and ecstasy. The discovery was made in a banquet hall…
This is the adorable moment a male panda impresses keepers with his painting skills. The panda called Zhui, who resides at the Moscow Zoo in the Russian capital, was spotted…
This 300-year-old Stradivarius violin is set to become the most expensive musical instrument ever sold at auction with an estimated price tag of between USD 12 million and USD 18…
Aldi customers who bought a number of paintings by a famous artist in the supermarket for next to nothing are selling them online for exorbitant prices, including one going for…
A famous German artist's last known painting has sold at auction for a whopping EUR 3.7 million, beating expectations that it would go for 'just' EUR 1.4 million. Max Beckmann…
A canvas painted completely white by modern art maestro Robert Ryman is to go under the hammer valued at over GBP 1.2 million. The 1970 minimal masterpiece is titled 'General…
The restoration of a chapel which left the centuries-old cherubs inside looking like "stunned cartoon characters" hassparked so much outrage it forced authorities to close it down until it can…
Art experts restoring a cathedral's stained glass windows in Austria were astonished when a local identified five of his ancestors in the artwork. Art historians have been conducting a painstaking…