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, ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

Fra Angelico, detail of the predella panel of "Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata" (1428–29), part of the Franciscan Triptych altarpiece, collection of the Musei Vaticani, Vatican City (all photos ...

Established in 1852 by three brothers, the Alinari firm produced many of the oldest photographs of Italy and have left behind a vast archive in Florence.

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...