Fra Angelico was most gentle and temperate and lived ... one of the most striking and most touching of the images is “The Meeting of St. Dominic and St. Francis,” a detail from “Virgin of ...

Fra Angelico, The Meeting of St. Dominic and Francis, 1434-1435. Fra Angelico, for instance, had a very personal relationship to the scene: he was a Dominican friar, and he had been commissioned to ...

St. Dominic de Guzman and his Order of Preachers have left ... The crystallization of the highest ideals of Christian art in the work of Fra Angelico has its counterpart in the permanency of form ...

Fra Angelico is, by the way, not his real name. He was Guido as a kid, Guido di Pietro. When, between 1419 and 1422, he became a monk, an Observant Dominican, he switched to Giovanni.

Pope St. John Paul II was asked about miracles attributed to Fra Angelico upon his beatification, and the Pope pointed to his art and said, “These are his miracles.” ...

Peoria Bishop Daniel Jenky rededicated the restored church on the Solemnity of Christ the King and designated it as a shrine to Blessed Fra Angelico on the feast of St. Joseph, March 19, 2004.

Fra Angelico's The Stigmatization of Saint Francis (circa 1428-29), at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo: Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art/Vatican Museums, Vatican City ...

St. Dominic by Fra Angelico. Public Domain. By Hannah Brockhaus. Vatican City, Aug 8, 2018 / 02:38 am. Thursday marks the Feast Day of St. Dominic, the 13th century priest ...

When Steven Woloshin, an American doctor, first saw the 600-year-old fresco of a Crucifixion by the Renaissance master Fra Angelico inside a cloistered convent in January last year, he was blown away.