The most publicized painting of the summer sale season is from the Italian Renaissance — and it’s unrepentantly religious — Fra Angelico’s Crucifixion just sold July 6 at Christie’s for over £5 ...

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 ...

A long-forgotten fresco by the early Renaissance master Fra Angelico has emerged from centuries of neglect in a secluded Tuscan convent, newly restored just in time for a landmark exhibition in ...

A rare 600-year-old fresco by the Renaissance master Fra Angelico, considered to be one of the painter’s earliest works, has been painstakingly restored after centuries of neglect. The painting, ...

Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, or Fra Angelico (1395-1455), was a Dominican friar and gifted artist of the early Renaissance. Known as “the Angelic Painter,” he created many magnificent works of religious ...

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 ...

FLORENCE —“Beato Angelico” at the Palazzo Strozzi and the Convent of San Marco is a radiant ravishing of the eyes — and, if the pious painter has his way, the soul as well. Forget Jackson Pollock’s ...

A once-in-a-generation exhibition in Italy shows how the Renaissance painter believed something with his whole heart, and then made it manifest. Art Review A once-in-a-generation exhibition in Italy ...

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 ...

Fra Angelico's Annunciation draws our eyes towards a recurring symbol that represented both the loss of paradise and the Virgin Mary's purity. Kelly Grovier explores the significance of a fresco's ...

Christie’s is the same auction house that sold Leonardo’s work six years ago — it was the most expensive painting ever sold — $450 million, and the buyer was probably the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.