The Bible employs many merisms, in which two contrasting words stand in for a whole spectrum. “Male and female” is one of them.

The fresco has been restored in time for a major Fra Angelico exhibition that opens at Palazzo Strozzi and Museo di San Marco, both in Florence, on Sept. 26. It looks set to be one of the major ...

He wants our souls to soar through it. Getty Images Fra Angelico's fresco on a wall in the Convent of San Marco depicts a familiar biblical narrative (Credit: Getty Images) Fra Angelico was in his ...

Fra Angelico’s masterpiece is the complex of frescoes he produced between 1440 and 1445, in the common spaces and cells of the Dominican convent of San Marco in Florence. As far as I know ...

San Marco was the beating heart of the Florentine ... including most of the Cloister of St. Antonino and Fra Angelico's extremely fine fresco depicting the Crucifixion and Saints in the Chapter ...

The designers traveled to Florence for the first time for the project, and were overcome with the beauty of the art, especially the Fra Angelico frescoes at San Marco. ‘Everywhere we went ...

The Bible employs many merisms, in which two contrasting words stand in for a whole spectrum. “Male and female” is one of them.

Step into the Museo di San Marco, a calming cloister of a monastery a few blocks from the Duomo, and you’re immediately introduced to the star of the show: Fra Angelico. His fresco of Saint ...

To stand in the quiet halls of the monastery of San Marco, today a Florentine ... by the passage of nearly six centuries, the frescoes of Fra Angelico attest to the deep piety of the community ...

Adoration of the Magi and Man of Sorrows by Fra Angelico, Cell 39, Museum of San Marco Convent, Florence, Italy, 2010 Robert Polidori's photographs of the frescos of Fra Angelico in the 15th ...

Fra Angelico's Annunciation draws ... But there can be little doubt that a widely-admired 15th-Century fresco that adorns a wall in the Convent of San Marco, Florence, is a formative moment ...