Two compact Renaissance masterpieces found hanging in a retiree's suburban house have sold at auction for almost $3.4 million. The two small panels, by Italian artist-monk Fra Angelico, were ...

View Early Renaissance style oil on wood panel in the manner of Fra Angelico. An angel in a blue gown playing a horn in an elabrorate gilt tabernacle style frame with painted crest Manner of Angelico ...

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).

Fra Angelico completed the original around 1432-34. ... everything from color to form to expression “seems to have come from the hand of such a saint or angel as these (in the painting).” ...

Fra Angelico's painting of the Crucifixion sold at Christie's on July 6, 2023, for about $6.4 million. Photo courtesy of Christie’s Images Limited 2023.

Fra Angelico painted for two popes and the Medici family, and through his sacred paintings and frescoes, he proclaimed the Gospel of Jesus Christ, one brushstroke at a time.

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 ...

Craquelure in places with light surface dirt. A light 9cm scratch to the bottom left quarter of the painting of the angel in brown. Surface scuffs to the top and bottom of one of the panels with a red ...

Glowing like a halo around Fra Angelico (c. 1390-1455) is the opposite idea. More than 70 of his paintings, heavenly in color, are now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They do what they were ...