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Icon In Little Old Lady's Kitchen Turns Out To Be Medieval Painting Worth Millions by Artsjournal1

A nonagenarian in the French town of Compiègne had had the painting hanging on the wall above her hot plate for decades, thinking it was a common Greek icon. The 8-by-10-inch image turns out to be Christ Mocked, part of a multi-panel work from about 1280 by the Italian painter Cimabue, and it's expected to […]

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM on September 25, 2019

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