The veiled symbolism of the artist's marble and stones has largely flown under the radar, but these mystical depths are too ...
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England has raised $4.48 million ($5.8 million) to acquire a Crucifixion painting by the renowned Renaissance painter Fra Angelico (ca. 1400–1455). This acquisition ...
An ambitious exhibition in the painter’s home city of Florence makes clear that his art had a touch of the divine. The Kunsthaus Zürich has announced a rich and varied annual programme for 2026.
Shrine in Peoria, Illinois, offers beauty via reproductions of the work of the renowned artist. Reproductions of the work of the famed 15th-century artist adorn St. Mark’s in Peoria, Illinois. (photo: ...
The first Fra Angelico painting to reach the United States had a secret. In 1899, Isabella Stewart Gardner acquired Assumption and Dormition of the Virgin, one of four works in a series by the Italian ...
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will be the sole venue for Fra Angelico: Heaven on Earth, opening February 22 through May 20, 2018. The exhibition will explore renowned Renaissance painter Fra ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...
With this summer’s exhibition devoted to Fra Angelico the Prado’s agenda was twofold. First, the Madrid museum wished to celebrate its rather surprising new status as an Angelico hub, following the ...
“I, for my part, can truthfully say that whenever I see this painting, it seems to be for the first time, and that I can never have my fill of it.” Thus wrote Giorgio Vasari, known as the father of ...
In 1914, an Easter section in The Times that showed paintings from the Metropolitan Museum was a sensation. But there was something off about Fra Angelico’s ‘The Crucifixion.’ By David W. Dunlap In ...
With this summer’s exhibition devoted to Fra Angelico the Prado’s agenda was twofold. First, the Madrid museum wished to celebrate its rather surprising new status as an Angelico hub, following the ...