Workers have completed a phase of conservation work on historic murals by the late artist Maxo Vanka at St. Nicholas Croatian ...

The majority of the painted churches are Catholic and stand clustered in ... Buie Harwood, who researched her book Decorating Texas: Decorative Painting in the Lone Star State from the 1850s ...

It was the largest Catholic church structure within ... Also joining the profusion of decorative painting around the church are garland swags on tromp l’oeil relief panels, colored and veined ...

Soon there was the decorative JPII plate my ... Our family calls it the Pope Room. The Catholic Church has created and inspired some of the greatest art in the world, famous for its quality ...

Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church ... Buie Harwood, professor emeritus and author of Decorating Texas: Decorative Painting in the Lone Star State from the 1850s to the 1950s, studied these ...

How do you conserve an incomparable set of murals that have accumulated more than 80 years’ worth of soot, salt and other ...