The Italian city is braced for record visitor numbers this year – but it’s possible to get off the beaten track if you know how ...

View Early Renaissance style oil on wood panel in the manner of Fra Angelico. An angel in a blue gown playing a horn in an elabrorate gilt tabernacle style frame with painted crest Manner of Angelico ...

Angels dance, sing and play trumpets, lutes and wind organs above a host of saints. Yet in this dense human assembly, no two look the same. Fra Angelico endows each saint with a distinct portrait.

Fra Angelico’s abundant work offers admiring visitors a wealth of paintings depicting the Madonna and Child, as well as angels with wonderfully delicate and precise faces and silhouettes ...

(Annick Donkers) Fusing eroticism and sacred iconography, the nine large-scale oil paintings depict Catholic figures such as angels ... of Saint Teresa,” Fra Angelico’s “The Annunciation ...

The wings of a Fra Angelico angel might appear on a toiletry bag (this is at the Prado). Painted feathers to printed silk; sacred altarpiece to useful object; singular exquisite panel for the ...

The Ashmolean Museum raised nearly £4.5 million (€5.4 million) to stop Fra Angelico’s The Crucifixion being sold overseas. Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum paid the impressive sum to prevent the ...

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford announced on Thursday that the 1420s crucifixion paining by Florentine artist Fra Angelico would now remain in the UK after it raised almost £4.5m. Museum director ...

There are very few paintings by Fra Angelico in British public collections – a fact ... This work, a hinged triptych that depicts the Virgin and Child with angels and a Dominican saint flanked by ...

An “absolute and unquestionable masterpiece of Fra Angelico’s early phase ... This work, a triptych depicting the Virgin and Child with angels and a Dominican saint flanked by Saints Peter and Paul, ...

A temporary export bar was granted on the crucifixion painting by the Renaissance master Fra Angelico, to allow the Oxford University institute to raise the £4.48 million needed to buy it in a ...

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 ...