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A remote and neglected masterpiece by Fra Angelico has been restored ahead of the Renaissance legend's major museum show in ...
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, ...
This 600-year-old ‘Crucifixion’ fresco has been restored to its original splendor, thanks to the support of U.S. nonprofit Friends of Florence.
Set down in the chronicle of the San Domenico convent at Fiesole are the simple facts about Fra Angelico: in 1407 “Fr. Joannes Petri de Mugello iuxta Vichium, optimus pictor, qui multas tabulas ...
The Belmond Villa San Michele, a 14th century Franciscan monastery juxtaposes the elegance of its idyllic setting with one of the most ubiquitous urban elements of the Tuscan capital: its street art.
On the forested slopes below the Italian town of Fiesole, Lucy Honeychurch, the heroine of E.M. Forster’s 1908 novel A Room with a View, stumbles into a clearing bright with violets. George ...