When I think of a masterpiece, the Mona Lisa comes to mind. The world’s most famous painting, painted by Leonardo da Vinci.

It was an unholy mistake — that became one town’s miracle. In 2012, an amateur art restorer in the small village of Borja, Spain, turned her attention to a fresco of Jesus Christ called “Ecce Homo” ...

FOUNTAIN — As a child, Loren Finseth would gaze at the towering painting of Jesus’ ascension into Heaven that graced Root Prairie Lutheran Church’s altar. "It’s one of my earliest childhood memories.

Government authorities in Spain prohibited the potential export of a painting that was previously set for auction later this week, after discovering that art piece could be a rare work created by ...