Imagine the ebullient glory of a vast ceiling mural from an Italian Baroque church brought down to size and hung on your living-room wall. In a series of beautiful and quietly perplexing paintings on ...

Paintings are usually done on walls, canvases, or paper. And while these too are masterpieces in their own right, it makes one wonder about the artistic ability and the courage required to paint on ...

The ceiling in the sanctuary of St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church in Columbus' German Village isn't just a ceiling, it's "a great historical legacy," said the Rev. Kevin Lutz, pastor at the ...

ALMOST NO ONE does ceiling paintings any longer. “I think it’s because we build towers nowadays,” says Mark Getty, who chaired the board of trustees of the National Gallery in London between 2009 and ...

For future visitors of Meeker Mansion, a suggestion: When inside one of its rooms, look up. There’s a good chance that the designs painted on the ceiling are the work of Sally Hopkins, a professional ...

KUMAGAYA, Saitama Prefecture—Since her inauguration as chief priest of Suwajinja shrine here in the latter half of the 1980s, Shoko Koshiba had always felt there was something wrong from above. The ...

Gary Hulbert has seen every inch of this Spanish-Moorish ceiling in the Hearst Castle Morning room from the top of this scaffold. David Middlecamp [email protected] Have you ever been ...

A Borders music venue is searching for more information about the Polish soldiers believed to be behind folk art paintings on its ceiling. The designs were only highlighted by architects during a ...