When Steven Woloshin, an American doctor, first saw the 600-year-old fresco of the Crucifixion by Renaissance master Fra Angelico inside a cloistered convent in January last year, he was blown away.

Experts believe there is a fresco painted by Leonardo Da Vinci hidden behind a later one by Giorgio Vasari after pigments were found matching his work.

So did the fresco: It was plastered over in 1566, when the entire room was whitewashed, perhaps because that style of painting was ... about 100 works by the Renaissance artist — said he hoped ...

The Sistine Chapel is one of the Catholic Church's most sacred sites. It was painted by Michelangelo over four years in the High Renaissance style, but ho ...