A spire competition is the wrong approach

The Art Newspaper network, which includes the Giornale dell’Arte, The Art Newspaper France, The Art Newspaper Russia, and The Art Newspaper China, has gathered together comments from three continents

The cathedral’s roof, wholly destroyed in the fire, was built of some 1300 great trees

Several charitable and crowdfunding campaigns have launched since the fire

Crown of Thorns and St Louis tunic are among the artefacts to have been saved, while paintings inside the cathedral will be removed and restored

US President proposed water bombing the cathedral but this risks weakening the structure, say experts

The country possesses more than 32,000 churches, 6,000 chapels and 87 cathedrals. Their dual administration has caused serious problems of management and conservation

The Turkish president wants the monument to serve as a place of worship flouting international pressure to retain the site’s current neutral status

Philanthropic funding assures new training for the next generation of masters to emerge

Exhibition at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation explores how Pharaohs and Christians alike went in for vandalising and “killing” icons

Two-year restoration of James Thornhill's dizzying Baroque interior was the largest open-access conservation project in Europe

Mysterious papers were found during the restoration of the south London house in Hackford Road where the Dutchman lodged

Architects, conservation experts and paint archaeologists have collaborated on £12m project to reopen west London house

The monumental bronze eagle was donated in 1954 by a gardener who inherited it from a diplomat and collector

New exhibition presents documents that lay the foundations for reconstruction of Aleppo and other sites ruined by civil war

Cardinal Grimani’s classical Greek and Roman sculptures—given to the Venetian Republic in 1587—will be reassembled in theatrical palace gallery

150 ancient artefacts will be displayed in a major exhibition commemorating the centenary of the discovery of the pharaoh’s tomb

As the Rijksmuseum prepares to restore the Dutch master’s most-celebrated painting in full view of the public, we look at its chequered conservation history

“Spalliera” panels depicting parables are reunited at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for the first time in 500 years

Noah Charney examines how historic buildings that were needlessly destroyed can live on today

The still life of fruit and chestnuts, until recently dismissed as a fake, was painted in Paris

When restoration is complete, the public will have access to Qianlong Garden complex for the first time

Residential Palace complex, a casualty of Allied bombing in the Second World War, is due to be rebuilt by 2021

Javett Art Centre at University of Pretoria will display 800-year-old gold collection excavated in the 1930s

Launched in 2016, Aliph will finance restoration work with technical support from the Louvre and Smithsonian Institution

The World Monuments Fund announces the completion of a four-year conservation effort

Getty scientists explore the artist’s use of gunpowder and other materials for a definitive new book

Inaugural show presents jewels and precious objects excavated in the early 20th century alongside more recent discoveries

The 1301 carved pulpit will undergo a two-year intensive monitoring programme