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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist and the Magdalen (1420s) “sets the sort of model that he was to follow” for such compositions ...

"Fra Giovanni was a simple and most holy man in his habits, and it is a sign of his goodness that one morning, when Pope Nicholas V. wished him to dine with him, he excused himself from eating flesh ...

“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 ...

Mr. Delistraty, a critic and historian, reported from Florence, Italy. Following the death of his mother, the artist Mark Rothko set off on a five-month trip across Europe in 1950, visiting the ...

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 ...

Two sacred art pieces by Renaissance master Fra Angelico were recently discovered and are expected to be auctioned in England for at least one million pounds (1.8 million U.S. Dollars) this spring.