The Pieta of Michelangelo in St. Peter's Basilica (Photo: Credit: Stanislav Traykov, Niabot, CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikimedia Commons) Each of these works was undertaken at different times in ...

This exquisite painting by Fra Angelico (1395/1400-1455) ... Over on the left, St. Peter reads the office of the dead. At far right, meanwhile, St. John the Evangelist holds a palm.

St. Paul says in Colossians 11:5 that Christ is the image of the unseen God, the invisible God. It’s interesting that the Greek word that Paul uses for image is icon .

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.

The Ashmolean owns another, later, work by Fra Angelico, a hinged triptych painted in 1450-55 depicting the Virgin and Child with angels and a Dominican saint flanked by St Peter and St Paul ...

Not only did Fra Giovanni paint like an angel; he was, in his personal life, an angel himself. The friar’s “angelic” style and “rare and perfect talent,” Vasari informs us, were the ...

Fra Angelico, The Crucifixion, with the Virgin, St John the Baptist and the Magdalen (around 1395-1455) Old Master paintings evening sale, Christie’s, London, 6 July. Estimate: £4m-£6m ...

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.