Many pieces on show in the Spanish Gallery are from the personal collection of financier Jonathan Ruffer, the main backer of a £150m regeneration project in Bishop Auckland

Alongside famous Pre-Raphaelite depictions of swoony, pillow-haired beauties are paintings of friends, family and fellow artists on show at the Holburne Museum

The cultural centre has international ambitions if it wins the £100,000 prize

Dig uncovers a wealth of objects, including jewellery probably worn by Queen Cynethryth, an influential female ruler likely to have been buried in the village

Tercentenary show opens at Bonhams in London before travelling to Compton Verney in Warwickshire

The rambling 365-room mansion is being rescued from near collapse, starting with its tea house

Scholars believe the 15th-century decorative work was whitewashed in the Tudor era to obliterate the Roman Catholic imagery

Tea clipper's original figurehead has been replaced with a carving based on the recently rediscovered original drawings

Home boasts the largest collection of the designer's hand-printed wallpapers as well as a wealth of Arts and Crafts treasures

The 19th-century French symbolist's works will go on show at Waddesdon Manor before travelling to Paris

Conservation of the panels—bought by Elizabethan noblewoman Bess of Hardwick—has been National Trust's "most lengthy and expensive textile project"

“Almost every single thing we think we know about him is wrong,” says the curator of a new exhibition at the British Museum

Francis I of Brittany had his first wife painted over in a medieval prayer book before giving it to his new spouse, research at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum shows

Mysterious image still holds some secrets however

Painting is the only surviving contemporary image of the monarch

New exhibition on 5,000 years of Iranian civilisation will feature museum's rarely seen replicas of life-sized friezes from King Darius’s “very excellent” palace

The richly decorated Schloss Köpenick serves as backdrop to a show of works by three artists whose motifs encompass the natural world and Greek legends

After a £4.3m National Lottery Heritage Fund grant and years of restoration, the historic priory is set to open this summer

Medieval masterpiece by Jan and Hubert Van Eyck is being unveiled today after a three-year treatment

Ewbank Auctions in England has estimated the amateur paintings by Josephine Butler at around £250 each

X-rays and computer algorithms preserve the complicated technique of letterlocking, which turn writing paper into envelope

Residents of a Surrey village are piecing together the history of the colourful and detailed paintings done by a local woman more than 100 years ago

After long-running row over the bequest of 19th-century collector Hugh Lane, new deal adds two paintings to rotating loan and greater collaboration between the two museums

Celtic deity from Cambridgeshire sports impeccable hair that is slightly longer at the back

Parts of the world famous monument may have been taken from a stone circle of identical diameter around 250kms away, researchers claim

Conservation boost from a US charity comes after the heritage organisation faced a £200m revenue collapse due to the pandemic

After years of neglect, ornate Victorian auditorium in northern seaside town of Morecambe is being saved

While the royal residence is under repair, some of the Royal Collection’s most famous paintings have been relocated and displayed in a more convenient setting

Monuments commemorating the First and Second World Wars—mostly built in small towns and villages—are added to Historic England's list of protected places

Donations have poured in from all over the globe since the museum appealed for aid