Hanging above the stove in a French woman’s house was an old painting she believed to be a knock-off. However, the artwork turned out to be a genuine Renaissance masterpiece that was over 700 ...

You can follow her on X (formerly Twitter) at @thebeccaflood. A long-lost Renaissance painting has been found hanging on the bedroom wall of a 90-year-old woman, decades after it was last seen.

An exceptionally rare gold-ground panel painting by the Medieval Italian master Cimabue made headlines in 2019 after it was discovered hanging above a stove in an elderly French woman’s kitchen.

In June 2019, an auctioneer discovered the painting hanging on a wall while inspecting ... Experts determined the painting was done by the pre-Renaissance painter Cimabue, who was said to have ...