The Italian painter Fra Angelico (ca. 1400-1455) achieved a unique synthesis of the mystical, visionary realms of medieval devotional painting with the Renaissance concern for representing the visuall...
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LONDON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - From the outside it's an
ordinary, red-brick house in a terraced row, not unlike tens of
thousands of others scattered across Britain. But on the inside, Jean Preston's ...
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High season is here for travel to Italy, with most tourists visiting the country between April and October. A new guide from Fodor's, "Essential Italy: Rome, Florence, Venice & the Top Spots in...
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The 2005-6 art season has begun—but only barely. The notable museum shows—Fra Angelico at the Met, Memling’s Portraits at the Frick and Oscar Bluemner at the Whitney—wonR...
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The 2005-6 art season has begun—but only barely. The notable museum shows—Fra Angelico at the Met, Memling’s Portraits at the Frick and Oscar Bluemner at the Whitney—wonR...
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Following is a summary of odd news briefs compiled from
stories that have run separately and are available in full on
the file.
Fly naked on nudist holiday flight FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German nu...
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"Sublime" isn't an adjective that a critic should bandy about promiscuously. Used appropriately, it can describe the paintings of Fra Angelico and Vermeer, but the word is pretty much depleted ther...
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Love at first sight: That was my initial response to Orange #1 (2005), a painting by Ridley Howard in his exhibition at the Zach Feuer Gallery in Chelsea. The innocuous title, indicative of the pai...
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I’m mad at the Met. Sure, it’s one of the world’s great museums. Tourists flock to its treasures, and New Yorkers, though perhaps a bit blasé about an institution in their ba...
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Angelico, Fra
Frugal British librarian amassed $8 mln art trove
