Mary and the announcing angel, Gabriel, share a golden ground, ... Fra Angelico, as he became known, was one painter of his era who would never be lost to popular renown, ...

Fra Angelico painted for two ... Mary is portrayed being drawn up to heaven by a host of angels ... The events are dramatic, as Gabriel visits the Virgin Mary and then come the Magi ...

Fra Angelico's Annunciation draws our eyes to a recurring symbol for both the loss of paradise and the Virgin Mary's purity. Kelly Grovier looks at what an enclosed garden reveals.

Experts worked for nearly a year at the Madrid museum to enhance the colours of the altarpiece, one of the best known works by the Italian painter and Dominican friar. The central panel of the ...

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 ...

The two pieces that formed the pinnacles to the wings of the tabernacle, one depicting the angel Gabriel announcing the birth of Christ and the other the image of the Virgin Mary, were donated to the ...

Fra Angelico's Annunciation draws our eyes to a recurring symbol for both the loss of paradise and the Virgin Mary's purity. Kelly Grovier looks at what an enclosed garden reveals.

MADRID: Spain’s Prado unveiled on Wednesday the restoration of “The Annunciation”, a 15th-century altarpiece by Renaissance painter Fra Angelico ahead of the museum’s bicentenary celebrations.