The Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College, part of Maritime Greenwich, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is being conserved for the first time since the 1950s. This means that visitors can get ...

The internal environment in the Painted Hall needed stabilising, as it had been damaged by fluctuations in temperature and humidity from the original entrance door opening and closing. An imaginative ...

The Painted Hall has been restored at a cost of £8.5 million Credit: James Brittain If Thornhill’s vast oval of illusionistic sky doesn’t quite explode out of the building as you might hope ...

Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College (Courtesy Steve Cadman) Replete with monarchical history and Britain’s most esteemed architectural interiors, the twin-domed Old Royal Naval College ...

When the Painted Hall in Greenwich reopens on 23 March, visitors can have a nice lie-down if overcome by the 4,000 sq. m interior painted by James Thornhill in 1707-26 with a tumult of kings and ...

The Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich is often referred to as the UK's Sistine Chapel. Image: It's been over half a century since the ceiling has received any attention The ...

A visitor views the Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College (Dominic Lipinski/PA) That was in the 18th century. But the Prime Minister will hope that the nation maintains that influence on the ...

The Painted Hall, one of the most spectacular baroque interiors in Europe and one of the largest ‘paintings' in the world, was conceived and created by the artist James Thornhill between 1707 ...