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 ...

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 ...

Fra Angelico's Annunciation draws our eyes towards a recurring symbol that represented both the loss of paradise and the Virgin Mary's purity. Kelly Grovier explores the significance of a fresco's ...

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, Hegel ...

Fra Angelico, Adoration of the Magi, 1433 at Museo di San Marco, ... This floor is lined with former monks’ cells, most decorated with a fresco Fra Angelico painted himself.

In a setting barely changed by the passage of nearly six centuries, the frescoes of Fra Angelico attest to the deep piety of the community that lived here, as well as to the power and wealth of ...

Museo Di San Marco Opens Fra Angelico Room With New Layout and Enhancements . This momentous event caps the celebrations marking the Museum's 150th anniversary.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. It’s worth a visit to the L.A. County Museum of Art to see ...

Fra Angelico painted for two popes and the Medici family, and through his sacred paintings and frescoes, ... The others have arrived from the Museo di San Marco in Florence.

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 fresco on a wall in the Convent of San Marco depicts a familiar biblical narrative (Credit: Getty Images) ...