Calvary may not have been Fra Angelico’s favourite theme; Vasari records the pious tradition that ‘whenever he painted a Crucifixion the tears would stream down his face’. John Pope-Hennessy would not ...
The Strozzis were a large, rich and powerful family in the Florence of the 1420s. Like many aristocratic merchant families of the time, they planned a chapel where only they would have the right to be ...
In accordance with the custom of exhibiting from time to time single loans of interest, the Fogg Art Museum is now showing in its Gallery a small painting by Fra Angelico. The painting is ...
There is perhaps no Renaissance artist whose art so closely reflects his personal character as the painter known to us as Fra Angelico. Described as "simple and most holy," "humane and temperate ...
In Fra Angelico’s Harrowing of Hell, Christ has burst the door off its hinge (squashing the devil in the process), and it ...
The Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris commissioned Laib to respond to Monet's popular murals as part of its celebration of the ...
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Two centuries later, a Franciscan brotherhood in Florence commissioned Fra Angelico’s “St. Francis’ Trial by Fire Before the Sultan,” in which the saint prepares to walk through fire to ...
Readings: Isaiah 52:13–53:12 Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9 John 18:1–19:42 Who are you? The question can be a bit uncomfortable. If ...
There are people whose esthetic sense is satisfied with copies of Fra Angelico's frescoes. There are people who look forward eagerly to the next Church Social, and who enjoy art and science only ...
Every March 25, the solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord is celebrated in the Catholic Church. But not this year.