As for the convent, after Napoleon suppressed Italian religious orders, it was sold, along with all the art it housed, to a private family who sold off several Fra Angelico works. Those include a ...

A monumental altarpiece by Fra Angelico, hailed as representing a critical turning point in Western art, has been returned to its original glory after a two-year restoration project. The work on ...

54 x 44 in. (137.2 x 111.8 cm.) ...

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

Fra Angelico’s art marked the transition between Medieval and Renaissance imagery and style. Read on to learn more about the saint and the outstanding painter of the Early Renaissance.

Fra Angelico was both a Dominican friar and one of most celebrated artists of the Italian Renaissance. Best known in Italy now as Beato Angelico or Blessed Angelic One, his paintings are ...