Craquelure in places with light surface dirt. A light 9cm scratch to the bottom left quarter of the painting of the angel in brown. Surface scuffs to the top and bottom of one of the panels with a red ...

The most publicized painting of the summer sale season is from the Italian Renaissance — and it’s unrepentantly religious — Fra Angelico’s Crucifixion just sold July 6 at Christie’s for ...

“I, for my part, can truthfully say that whenever I see this painting, it seems to be for the first time, and that I can never have my fill of it.” Thus wrote Giorgio Vasari, known as the ...

Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, or Fra Angelico (1395-1455), was a Dominican friar and gifted artist of the early Renaissance. Known as “the Angelic Painter,” he created many magnificent works of ...

Mary and the announcing angel, Gabriel, share a golden ground ... than orthodox conventions about the heavenly, Fra Angelico advanced art toward the High Renaissance and realized transcendence ...

No one else paints such fresh-cheeked angels, tells the old stories ... In no other painter does the gentle seem so strong. Fra Angelico Metropolitan Museum of Art. Through January 29.

Riches of Heaven: "The Annunciatory Angel" from the New York exhibition of the Renaissance master's works.CREDIT: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona CAPTION: Fra Angelico, "Virgin and ...

The modern mind doesn’t easily accommodate itself to the idea that the art of painting may sometimes achieve the status The modern mind doesn’t easily accommodate itself to the idea that the ...

Fra Angelico‘s painting of the Crucifixion sold at Christie’s on July 6, 2023, for about $6.4 million. Photo courtesy of Christie’s Images Limited 2023 Just as the sensation of 2017 was ...