Jeanne Lanvin's art collection to be auctioned Nov 25, 2008
The iconic Lanvin blue color was inspired by a Fra Angelico painting. Her collection of 31 artworks reads like a list of Impressionism to early Modernism: Bonnard and Braque, Degas and Pissarro, Renoir and Vuillard. (International Herald Tribune)
Fra Angelico & Nativity at Kimbell ... Nov 11, 2008
Fra Angelico & Nativity at Kimbell Art Museum: Reunited Italian Renaissance Paintings & Neapolitan Crche on View ... Fra Angelico ity at Kimbell Art Museum ... Fra Angelico & Nativity at Kimbell Art Museum. (Suite101.com)
Art Galleries of Madrid Oct 14, 2008
El Greco, Velazquez, Goya are all represented as are Flemish masters like Van der Weyden, Hemling and Rubens as well as painters of the Italian Renaissance such as Raphael, Botticelli and Fra Angelico. Among the masterpieces one should not miss seeing in the Prado are Velazquez' Las Meninas and Surrender at Breda, Goya's Majas (both the Naked and Clothed versions) and Tres de Maio (Third of May), Memling's Adoration of the Magi, Rubens' The Three Graces and Almedina's beautiful portrait of Santa... (Suite101.com)
London - Somerset House - Courtauld... Sep 7, 2008
One of the highlights is Cranach s Adam and Eve and Fra Angelico s Man of Sorrows. The River Terrace has a caf; with views over the Thames. (Suite101.com)
How rag and bone man left grandson a 2,400-year-old Persian treasure May 28, 2008
"Fortunately for his peace of mind, Webber says the cup was safely in his shoebox long before the infamous Greenhalgh family of art forgers got to work in Bolton: the cup is precisely the kind of exquisite but unique object that Shaun Greenhalgh, now in jail for conspiracy to defraud, used to knock out in his garden shed.It will be sold next week - along with two other pieces of gold from the shoebox, a Greek figure of Ajax valued at 2,000, and a Roman gold spoon valued at 10,000 - at a small... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Renaissance Artist Nicknames May 15, 2008
These Painters Are Better Known by What Names. European artists in 14th to 16th centuries have celebrated shortened names more famous than their given names. (Suite101.com)
Rome's house museums: Intimate palaces to suit every taste Mar 25, 2008
About 300 paintings by the likes of Fra Angelico, Annibale Carracci, Caravaggio, Murillo and Rubens are tidily compressed into eight galleries. Even at the height of the tourist season, daily attendance rarely tops 50 visitors so it's like having these masterpieces to oneself. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
Masterpieces found in dead curators home Jan 30, 2008
LONDON - Jean Preston could have bought a lot of frozen dinners with the proceeds of two Fra Angelico altarpieces ... Two altarpiece panels painted by Italian Renaissance artist Fra Angelico were sold at auction last year for almost $3 ... Preston inherited much of her art from her father, a collector who bought the two Fra Angelicos in the 1960s. (MSNBC -- News)
Row house was art house Jan 30, 2008
Among the treasures were two paintings by Fra Angelico, the 15th-century Italian Renaissance master, that were the missing pieces of an eight-part altar decoration ... The Fra Angelicos were behind the bedroom door and we only spotted them on the way out ... Ms. Preston had found the Fra Angelicos in a box of odds and ends while visiting the United States in the 1960s. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Oxford pensioner's paintings worth 2.7m Jan 29, 2008
After Jean Preston died two years ago, two paintings by the Renaissance artist Fra Angelico were found behind the door of the spare room in her two-up, two-down terraced home in Oxford. The works sold for 1. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Renaissance Art Book Gifts 2007 Dec 15, 2007
Kanter, Laurence B., et al. Fra Angelico (exh. cat. (Suite101.com)
The 1500 'mock' Rembrandt sold for 2.2m as the real thing Oct 27, 2007
It is not impossible that this is so: a Cimabue, much rarer than a Rembrandt, was found in a dark corridor of an East Anglian house a few years ago, while two ravishing Fra Angelico saints turned up in a spare bedroom last year. Rembrandt authentication has been a growth industry for decades. (Guardian Unlimited)
In the Spirit of Jazz Aug 8, 2007
A student of Hungarian painter Sy Mohr, Mr. Buzash names Van Gogh, Da Vinci, Jackson Pollock, Simone Martini, Fra Angelico and TCNJ student Diane Polchinski as influences. He has shown in juried exhibitions in New Jersey and Maryland. (South Brunswick Post, NJ)
Which 19th-Century Painter Jun 24, 2007
The Fra Angelico of Satanism ... Likewise, in the frescoes painted by Early Renaissance master Fra Angelico, the viewer can see that painterly skill matched with an artist s personal interpretation of his subject creates a truly great work of art ... Indeed, Beardsley s drawings earned him the term the Fra Angelico of Satanism by art critic Roger Fry. (Suite101.com)
Desiderio da Settignano Apr 29, 2007
The subtle Desiderio: Breathing life into cool marble - International Herald Tribune. The subtle Desiderio: Breathing life into cool marble. (International Herald Tribune)
Paintings Found In House Fetch $3.4M Apr 21, 2007
"They're not the sort of thing that you look at twice particularly. They're not attractive. If it had been Fra Angelico angels, that would have been a different kettle of fish!" ... The two small panels, by Italian artist-monk Fra Angelico, were bought by an anonymous European bidder on Thursday at Duke's auction house in the southwestern English town of Dorchester ... She points out that Fra Angelico is considered one of the great masters of Italian Renaissance art, and has himself been... (CBS News)
Lost altar paintings go for 1.7m Apr 20, 2007
The altar panels, painted by Italian monk Fra Angelico in 1439, disappeared after the altar was destroyed in the Napoleonic wars ... Laurence Kanter, of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and a leading expert on Fra Angelico, said it was "very exciting" while Dillian Gordon, of the National Gallery in London, added: "This is quite breathtaking. It never ceases to amaze me how these things come to light.". (BBC News -- UK)
Masterpieces found in Oxford Apr 20, 2007
Italian ministry outbid by private buyer in Dorset sale of Fra Angelico saints ... Yesterday, having been identified as the missing pieces of the San Marco altarpiece by the Renaissance master Fra Angelico, the pieces were sold for 1. (Guardian Unlimited)
Nothing Borrowed, Something New Mar 1, 2007
They are Caravaggio, Fra Angelico, Hals, Zurbran, Canaletto, Boucher and Tiepolo. There are also paintings from the neoclassical and Romantic schools by such artists as Ingres and Delacroix. (CTNow.com)
