A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the ...

A 700-year-old fresco discovered in the convent church of S. Antonio in Polesine in Ferrara, Italy, reveals that luxurious Islamic tents were used to conceal altars in medieval European churches ...

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the ...

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the ...

‘During anti-Muslim expeditions, it was common to pay mercenaries in textiles and a tent was the ultimate prize. ‘The fresco matches descriptions of royal Islamic tents which were seized ...

Art historians have recreated part of the interior of London’s long-lost medieval royal palace.. Most of the vast palace complex - one of the largest in medieval England - was destroyed by fire ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a lost centuries-old church near a medieval royal palace. The remains were found below a tennis court during excavations at the site of Visegrád, a ...

The fresco is thought to be the only surviving depiction of an Islamic tent in a medieval church. Dr Federica Gigante examining the fresco in the Church of S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara, Italy.