From the 1800s until just a few years ago, parishioners at the church of Saint Félix in the small town of Champigny-en-Beauce in France’s Loire Valley attended services in the presence of a painting ...

Sandro Botticelli’s rediscovered and arresting “Man of Sorrows,” due to be auctioned at Sotheby’s on January 27 – with a guarantee of $40 million – has yet to be studied extensively, as it has been in ...