The seven alabaster reliefs document the military conquests of the Neo-Assyrian King Sennacherib

Madame du Barry, whose life is the subject of a new Netflix film, was born into poverty and sold trinkets on the streets of Paris before joining court circles in her 20s

House in London's Kensington includes hundreds of commercial artist Linley Sambourne’s illustrations and cartoons—and (not on view) his pornographic photographs

Artist’s huge sculpture at Benesse Art Site Naoshima has been restored after being severely damaged last year

Home to works by Old Masters including Peter Paul Rubens and Jan van Eyck, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp reopens after 11-year makeover

The BTS musician and avid collector has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the preservation and promotion of Korean cultural heritage

The historic interior, with its elaborate avian ornamentation, has undergone months of cleaning and restoration to shore up worn elements and return others to their original lustre

A new exhibition at the museum centres on ‘Expanded Expansion’, a large-scale latex work that had deteriorated in storage for decades

The Bath museum, the only surviving example of the reclusive millionaire's architectural achievements, is also showing works from his original art collection

Meanwhile, Mick Jagger's photo in front of Picasso's Guernica makes waves

The work was temporarily rehung for press, but the public will have to wait until a bulletproof "protective capsule" can be installed

Henrietta Howard's Marble Hill is a rare surviving example of such a home, and even rarer as one created by a woman

Once a military base deep in the desert, the newly restored Marfa art centre is a sanctuary for sculpture

Local trainees are taking up traditional stone masonry techniques as part of a major Unesco initiative to restore heritage houses damaged in the battle to liberate the Iraqi city from Isis

An international restoration plan has been revised after the foundations of an ancient prayer hall were discovered at the site of the Al-Nuri mosque

Modern-day politicians in France's National Assembly helped to crowdfund the €1.8m restoration at the Château de Versailles

New research has helped to bring back lost objects and features at Kelmscott Manor, where the English Arts and Crafts designer lived for 25 years

A new World Monuments Fund project in conjunction with the US embassy in Baghdad aims to repair Iraqi cultural heritage as part of the Future of Babylon project

The Museo Fortuny has now been restored as a permanent venue celebrating the polymath designer's life and work

It's time to drag the institution out of its entrenched past and into the 21st century

Artefacts had been "smashed into pieces" by Isis militants when they occupied the Unesco World Heritage site as a training camp

Revelations about The Red Vineyard, just conserved at Moscow’s Pushkin Museum

The Church of La Jalca Grande, one of the first churches built in Peru after the Spanish conquest, was constructed using stones from pre-Hispanic monuments

Reviving 17th-century Tijou screens commissioned by Protestant monarchs William and Mary means undoing decades of damage and haphazard repairs

Plans to revamp the fire-ravaged cathedral with contemporary art and multilingual projections of Bible quotes have been compared to Disneyland

Technical studies on neglected painting cast valuable light on the workings of the Renaissance master's Florence studio and on the question of attribution

A collaboration between the Cleveland Museum of Art and the National Museum of Cambodia revealed that each boy god had been given the other’s limbs during earlier conservation work

New research indicates Hubert started the work but had to stop, so Jan took over

The Cité du Vitrail will open in the medieval town of Troyes in spring 2022, but preview tours are running this weekend for the European Heritage Days

Major restoration on Girl reading a Letter at an Open Window shows a large studded goblet later covered by a green curtain