Beatified by Pope John Paul II, Fra Angelico is already a saint for art collectors. His painting of the Christ upon the cross just sold at Christie’s for a record price. Wednesday, July 23, 2025 ...

Peoria Bishop Daniel Jenky rededicated the restored church on the Solemnity of Christ the King and designated it as a shrine to Blessed Fra Angelico on the feast of St. Joseph, March 19, 2004.

There are only two recorded auction sales of Fra Angelico works this century: one small panel sold by Christie’s in New York last year for $4.7m (with fees) and a slightly larger Crucifixion ...

A rare 600-year-old fresco by the Renaissance master Fra Angelico, considered to be one of the painter’s earliest works, has been painstakingly restored after centuries of neglect. The painting, ...

Fra Angelico Elicits Astonishing ... the acts of Christ should be with Christ. It is averred that he never handled a brush without fervent prayer and he wept when he painted a Crucifixion.

Fra Angelico was most gentle and temperate and lived chastely, withdrawn from the snares of the world. He would often comment that the man who occupies himself with the things of Christ should ...

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 ...

A Fra Angelico painting of the Crucifixion worth £5 million has been temporarily barred from leaving England by the government. “The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist and ...

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England has raised $4.48 million ($5.8 million) to acquire a Crucifixion painting by the renowned Renaissance painter Fra Angelico (ca. 1400–1455).

In the central panel, Fra Angelico uses an eye-catching palette of blues, pinks and golds, as Christ, in silvery robes, passes judgment on the living and dead via Matthew 25.

In 1914, an Easter section in The Times that showed paintings from the Metropolitan Museum was a sensation. But there was something off about Fra Angelico’s ‘The Crucifixion.’ ...