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Conservators Are Uncovering Elaborate Angel Murals Hidden Behind Seven Layers of White Paint at a Colonial-Era Church
Around the year 1730, church leaders hired a congregation member named John Gibbs to paint 16 angels on the interior upper arches. Gibbs also painted angels on the organ case and an altar panel ...
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Restoring a 300-year-old mural in Boston’s historic Old North Church
Stewart explains that the interior was overpainted white beginning in 1912, one of many renovations and redecorations the church has gone ... Associates to conduct a paint study in 2016 and ...