Jamie Kelly, left, and Tina Gessler roll up a recently restored Chinse scroll painting of the Madonna and Child at the Field Museum in Chicago, Ill. MCT photo CHICAGO — As a pair of conservators at ...
CHICAGO | As a pair of conservators at the Field Museum slowly unrolled an ancient Chinese scroll, it dramatically revealed how far the Christian faith has traveled since that first Christmas in ...
Recently, a remarkable discovery has been made. Ancient Chinese scrolls, well-preserved and steeped in history, are shedding new light on our understanding of optics. These ancient texts suggest an ...
A 700-year-old Chinese painted scroll sold for nearly $42 million at an auction in Hong Kong. According to Sotheby’s, the piece of art fetched 306.6 million Hong Kong dollars ($41.8 million).