Pierre Rosenberg has pledged his collection of works by Charles Le Brun and other artists to the new museum

Mark Purcell's study explores 19th-century bibliomania and rejects the notion that books in historic libraries were "bought by the yard"

Kalemegdan served as a military site for the Roman Empire and is a candidate for Unesco World Heritage status

Kunsthalle Rostock, the only museum built under the GDR, remembers Berlin's asbestos-riddled parliament building and culture hub

Medieval sculpture on façade of Unesco World Heritage site in Wittenberg is one of around 30 similar pieces across Europe

Excavation campaigns on the Greek island have raised questions about our knowledge of Cycladic art and culture

A petition has been launched to prevent the Peruvian government from continuing the project

German city launches €85m plan to prevent further decay of infamous rally grounds

Life-size "bodyforms" are positioned amid ancient grottoes, agoras and sculptures

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Complex conservation issues mean it could easily take a decade or more to rebuild the Medieval cathedral

Crowdfunding campaigns have also launched to support victims and restore heritage sites after deadly blasts

A spire competition is the wrong approach

The Art Newspaper network, which includes the Giornale dell’Arte, The Art Newspaper France, The Art Newspaper Russia, and The Art Newspaper China, has gathered together comments from three continents

The cathedral’s roof, wholly destroyed in the fire, was built of some 1300 great trees

Several charitable and crowdfunding campaigns have launched since the fire

Crown of Thorns and St Louis tunic are among the artefacts to have been saved, while paintings inside the cathedral will be removed and restored

US President proposed water bombing the cathedral but this risks weakening the structure, say experts

The country possesses more than 32,000 churches, 6,000 chapels and 87 cathedrals. Their dual administration has caused serious problems of management and conservation

The Turkish president wants the monument to serve as a place of worship flouting international pressure to retain the site’s current neutral status

Philanthropic funding assures new training for the next generation of masters to emerge

Exhibition at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation explores how Pharaohs and Christians alike went in for vandalising and “killing” icons

Two-year restoration of James Thornhill's dizzying Baroque interior was the largest open-access conservation project in Europe

Mysterious papers were found during the restoration of the south London house in Hackford Road where the Dutchman lodged

Architects, conservation experts and paint archaeologists have collaborated on £12m project to reopen west London house

The monumental bronze eagle was donated in 1954 by a gardener who inherited it from a diplomat and collector

New exhibition presents documents that lay the foundations for reconstruction of Aleppo and other sites ruined by civil war

Cardinal Grimani’s classical Greek and Roman sculptures—given to the Venetian Republic in 1587—will be reassembled in theatrical palace gallery

150 ancient artefacts will be displayed in a major exhibition commemorating the centenary of the discovery of the pharaoh’s tomb

As the Rijksmuseum prepares to restore the Dutch master’s most-celebrated painting in full view of the public, we look at its chequered conservation history