Reliquaries Reunited. Fra Angelico painted the four reunited reliquaries for the Church of Santa Maria Novella, the Dominicans’ Florentine headquarters between about 1426 and 1434.

Above the Marian altar, as the backdrop behind the statue of Our Lady and the Child Jesus, is the magnificent Coronation of the Virgin. Fra Angelico completed the original around 1432-34.

This exquisite painting by Fra Angelico (1395/1400-1455) at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum shows the Assumption of the Virgin Mary – her ascent into heaven – immediately above a scene ...

Thus wrote Giorgio Vasari, known as the father of art history, in 1550 about “The Coronation of the Virgin” (ca. 1450) by Fra Angelico, the saintly Dominican friar-painter who is the subject ...

The Ashmolean owns another, later, work by Fra Angelico, a hinged triptych painted in 1450-55 depicting the Virgin and Child with angels and a Dominican saint flanked by St Peter and St Paul ...

Fra Angelico is, by the way, not his real name. He was Guido as a kid, Guido di Pietro. When, between 1419 and 1422, he became a monk, an Observant Dominican, he switched to Giovanni.

While a Dominican monk at San Marco’s monastery in Florence, Fra Angelico (1395–1455) was commissioned to paint frescoes in the meeting rooms and dormitory cells of the lay brothers, novices, and ...

At the Ashmolean, it will join a triptych by Fra Angelico currently on display in the Early Italian Art gallery. Its central panel depicts the Virgin and Child with angels and a Dominican saint ...

When Steven Woloshin, an American doctor, first saw the 600-year-old fresco of a Crucifixion by the Renaissance master Fra Angelico inside a cloistered convent in January last year, he was blown away.

The Marriage of the Virgin, 1431-1435. On panel, 19 x 50 cm (7 1/2 x 19 11/16 in.) Museo di San Marco, Florence – Polo Museale della Toscana ...

Maureen O'Brien didn't expect Fra Angelico's "Visitation" to lead to her acceptance of her mother's dementia. But in an intimate mother-daughter moment, the painting gave her strength and peace ...

Museo Di San Marco Opens Fra Angelico Room With New Layout and Enhancements . This momentous event caps the celebrations marking the Museum's 150th anniversary.