PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo The painting, "Rest on the Flight into Egypt," by Italian Renaissance artist ... Suddenly It Grabs Him' "One of the last religious works from the artist’s ...

This Renaissance ... the painting, according to a statement from the auction house. It had been in her possession for more than 30 years. “I was utterly shocked when I saw this early religious ...

The French painting's elderly owner thought it was just a rather old religious icon when she took it to her local auctioneers to be valued. Early Renaissance art was hugely influenced by Byzantine ...

On Thursday, "during a French class, a colleague showed a 17th-century painting that showed naked women", said Sophie Venetitay, secretary general of the Snes-FSU secondary school teachers' union.

On Thursday, "during a French class, a colleague showed a 17th-century painting that showed naked women", said Sophie Venetitay, secretary general of the Snes-FSU secondary school teachers' union.