Notably, a very faded painting of the crucifixion scene with Jesus on the cross was also uncovered, the image of his crown of ...

The paintings with the most outstanding artistic value are those from 13th century. Whilst they interpret the Byzantine canon, the images have a special spiritual expressiveness and vitality and are ...

Onfim, who scrawled his name on his entertaining sketches, doodled on more than a dozen thin pieces of birch bark in the mid-13th century, and his artistic talent was preserved for centuries by ...

A fragment of this design was seen in the early 20th century, hidden behind a blocked recess at the end of the wall passage in St Nicholas's chapel. The most important wall paintings in the Abbey are ...

Experts believe the rare artefact dates back to the late 12th or early 13th century. “I was amazed to see a thin line of gold in the clod of mud that I had dug up, and as I wiped away the ...