President Putin ordered the transfer of the medieval masterpiece from the State Tretyakov Gallery to the Russian Orthodox Church despite protests from restorers

Josep Renau's vast memorial in Halle-Neustadt is one of the most important surviving public works of art produced in communist East Germany

Though the Parisian cathedral's nave is expected to reopen to the public by the end of 2024, work to restore the entire site could last until 2028

The first phase of the redevelopment of the New York museum of art from Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries will open in April

Once owned by Jewish collectors in Vienna, the landscape was exported to the US on condition it was exhibited in the Austrian pavilion at the 1948 Venice Biennale

Newly-refurbished home belonged to former slaves who made their wealth in the wine business

Expert stabilisation plan means the Italian landmark has continued to straighten itself

Conservationists raise concerns that by cleaning the Paris cathedral's fire-damaged interior stonework it will become "artificially bright"

"Artemisia UpClose" project at Casa Buonarroti in Florence, Italy, will use state-of-the-art technology to show the original painting

The painting, which is currently being restored at the J. Paul Getty Museum, will ultimately return to the Sursock Palace

Go ahead given to a restoration project to preserve two historic sites associated with the Jewish community that once resided in Herat

The seven alabaster reliefs document the military conquests of the Neo-Assyrian King Sennacherib

Madame du Barry, whose life is the subject of a new Netflix film, was born into poverty and sold trinkets on the streets of Paris before joining court circles in her 20s

House in London's Kensington includes hundreds of commercial artist Linley Sambourne’s illustrations and cartoons—and (not on view) his pornographic photographs

Artist’s huge sculpture at Benesse Art Site Naoshima has been restored after being severely damaged last year

Home to works by Old Masters including Peter Paul Rubens and Jan van Eyck, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp reopens after 11-year makeover

The BTS musician and avid collector has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the preservation and promotion of Korean cultural heritage

The historic interior, with its elaborate avian ornamentation, has undergone months of cleaning and restoration to shore up worn elements and return others to their original lustre

A new exhibition at the museum centres on ‘Expanded Expansion’, a large-scale latex work that had deteriorated in storage for decades

The Bath museum, the only surviving example of the reclusive millionaire's architectural achievements, is also showing works from his original art collection

Meanwhile, Mick Jagger's photo in front of Picasso's Guernica makes waves

The work was temporarily rehung for press, but the public will have to wait until a bulletproof "protective capsule" can be installed

Henrietta Howard's Marble Hill is a rare surviving example of such a home, and even rarer as one created by a woman

Once a military base deep in the desert, the newly restored Marfa art centre is a sanctuary for sculpture

Local trainees are taking up traditional stone masonry techniques as part of a major Unesco initiative to restore heritage houses damaged in the battle to liberate the Iraqi city from Isis

An international restoration plan has been revised after the foundations of an ancient prayer hall were discovered at the site of the Al-Nuri mosque

Modern-day politicians in France's National Assembly helped to crowdfund the €1.8m restoration at the Château de Versailles

New research has helped to bring back lost objects and features at Kelmscott Manor, where the English Arts and Crafts designer lived for 25 years

A new World Monuments Fund project in conjunction with the US embassy in Baghdad aims to repair Iraqi cultural heritage as part of the Future of Babylon project

The Museo Fortuny has now been restored as a permanent venue celebrating the polymath designer's life and work