Two Sienese panels dating from the 15th century have been recovered in an English parish church, in a village in Yorkshire, just outside the town of Sheffield. More precisely this extraordinary discovery occurred in St. John e S. Mary Magdalene’s Church in the small town of Goldthorpe. 
A sensational retrieval, considering that the two paintings had been “abandoned” for years in the Lady Chapel, an architectonic area of the church where it was very difficult to see them in their splendour.  Nobody ever thought that these works could have an important value. There were no suspects of them being an ancient work and especially no desire to study them or record them.  But at last even these paintings, after many centuries, have been noticed and analysed. Indeed, as soon as the first suspect emerged, Christie’s auction house was called in for a consultancy and in turn sought advice from Everett Fahy of the Metropolitan Museum of New York.