Peoria Bishop Daniel Jenky rededicated the restored church on the Solemnity of Christ the King and designated it as a shrine to Blessed Fra Angelico on the feast of St. Joseph, March 19, 2004.

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 ...

Beatified by Pope John Paul II, Fra Angelico is already a saint for art collectors. His painting of the Christ upon the cross just sold at Christie’s for a record price.

Fra Angelico was most gentle and temperate and lived chastely, withdrawn from the snares of the world. He would often comment that the man who occupies himself with the things of Christ should ...

Fra Angelico Elicits Astonishing Piety At Met Exhibition The modern mind doesn’t easily accommodate itself to the idea that the art of painting may sometimes achieve the status By Hilton Kramer ...

Fra Angelico's The Stigmatization of Saint Francis (circa 1428-29), at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo: Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art/Vatican Museums, Vatican City ...

The British Museum's Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance Drawings is an assembly of sumptuous Uffizi drawings which shows how paper set 15th Century artists free.

Just as the sensation of 2017 was “Christ as Salvator Mundi,” by Leonardo da Vinci, the latest is Christ as part of a Calvary scene. Fra Angelico died around the time that Leonardo was born ...