Fra Angelico's Annunciation draws our eyes to a recurring symbol for both the loss of paradise and the Virgin Mary's purity. Kelly Grovier looks at what an enclosed garden reveals.

In Lives of the Artists, Georgio Vasari described Fra Angelico’s painting of the Annunciation as “so devout, delicate, and well-executed that it truly seems to have been created in Paradise ...

Laura Llewellyn 2 September 2019 Fra Angelico, The Annunciation Courtesy of the Museo del Prado ...

Seen together, the four Fra Angelico reliquaries are able to tell the full story of the life of the Virgin Mary — from her annunciation to her coronation in heaven.

The Fra Angelico exhibition at the Met cannot, of course, offer us the same order of experience as a visit to San Marco in Florence, but it’s a beautiful and moving exhibition all the same, and ...

If St. Thomas Aquinas is called the “Angelic Doctor,” fellow Dominican Fra Angelico could be dubbed the “Angelic Painter,” along with his time-honored moniker that translates to “Angelic ...

The exhibition will analyze the beginnings of the Florentine Renaissance in 1420-1430, focussing on Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro da Muguello, 1395/1400-1455).

Fra Angelico's "Annunciation of Cortona" offers a telling commentary on today's Gospel about Gabriel's mission to Mary of Nazareth. It is filled with symbols of sacred history.