Florence, cradle of the Italian Renaissance and home to an estimated 30 per cent of the world’s art treasures, is a ...

Discover the beauty of Renaissance paintings, where art, realism, and storytelling blend to create timeless masterpieces that continue to inspire today. Read on.

The exhibition’s titular themes of sex and solitude are explored through drawings, paintings, photography, embroidery, ...

Simone Martini and brothers Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti paved the way for the great art of the Renaissance. Indeed, much of what we associate with artists such as Fra Angelico, Sandro Botticelli ...

Christian paintings have been thriving as an art genre since the Middle Ages ... In every depiction of the character from Fra Angelico’s fresco of dynamism amidst the ferns, to 19th century painter ...

The art form is providing a bridge between faith traditions, and, for some artists and viewers, a path into faith. While the Italian Catholic iconography of, say, Fra Angelico, looks at home in a ...

The ghosts of Fra Angelico, Claude Lorrain, and Picasso seem to whisper from the walls; their influence is palpable in his ongoing dance with art history. No Hockney exhibition would be complete ...

a respected artist who had studied with Piero della Francesca but was not considered a great one. Fra Angelico, the beloved Dominican friar known for his serene, luminous works, had started on the ...

The Nazarene movement was a group of early 19th-century German and Austrian artists who sought to revive the purity, spirituality, and craftsmanship of early Renaissance and late medieval art, ...

A monumental altarpiece by Fra Angelico, hailed as representing a critical turning point in Western art, has been returned to its original glory after a two-year restoration project. The work on ...

though history remembers him as Fra Angelico, meaning "the Angelic Brother." His most famous works include the San Marco frescoes in Florence. These serene compositions reflect his deep theological ...