Originally designed as a monument symbolizing the Reconquest, the Convent of the Knights Templar of Tomar (transferred in 1344 to the Knights of the Order of Christ) came to symbolize just the ...

where monks once reached the order’s main decisions. Image The restorers dabbed lightly at the vast blue background that surrounds a lone Christ. The fresco’s inaccessibility — the convent ...

When Steven Woloshin, an American doctor, first saw the 600-year-old fresco of the Crucifixion by Renaissance master Fra Angelico inside a cloistered convent in January last year, he was blown away.