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UK blocks the export of Beato Angelico's Crucifixion

The United Kingdom has blocked the export of Beato Angelico's rare early Crucifixion , a masterpiece discovered and published in Burlington Magazine in 1996 by Francis Russell, and which went up for auction this summer at Sotheby's, where the work fe...
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Beato Angelico's youthful Crucifixion sold for £5 million: it's a record

It's a record for Beato Angelico: his youthful Crucifixion , an important work that went to auction yesterday at Christie's in London, was in fact sold for £5 million (€5.8 million). The work started from an estimate of 4-6 million pounds. N...
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A rare early Crucifixion by Beato Angelico goes up for auction in July at Christie's

Going up for auction at Christie' s on July 6 with an estimate of between £4 million and £6 million (€4.6 million to €7 million) is a rare early Crucifixion by Fra Angelico: it will be the highlight of the Old Masters Part I Sale to...
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American director brings Beato Angelico fresco to life with tableau vivant

The power, beauty, and spiritual intensity of Fra Angelico 's work inspired American director Armondo Linus Acosta for Fra Angelico's Communion: The Living Tableau, the second film work in a series of four tableau vivant, visual rewrites of extraordi...
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In San Giovanni Valdarno, Masaccio and Beato Angelico compared in an exhibition of the Uffizi Diffusi

After the important exhibition in Reggello for the six hundredth anniversary of the Triptych of St. Juvenal, another review delves into the figure of Masaccio (San Giovanni Valdarno, 1401 - Rome, 1428), in the town that gave him birth, Castel San Gio...
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Beato Angelico's Annunciation of Cortona: divine light reflecting on earth

What place does Beato Angelico occupy in the development of Italian art? Pavel Pavlovič Muratov asked that question in 1929. And it is a question to which many scholars, more or less explicitly, have attempted to give an answer, tr...
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From Florence to Forli: Beato Angelico's Last Judgment on display at major exhibition on Dante

On the occasion of the major exhibition celebrating the 700th anniversary of Dante's death set up at the San Domenico Museums in Forlì until July 11, 2021, anagreement has been signedfor the exchange of two masterpieces by Beato Angelico betwe...
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Uffizi Gallery presents virtual exhibition on miraculous healings

The Uffizi Gallery is offering a virtual exhibition on its official website that has as its main theme...miraculous healing. Entitled, precisely, Miraculous Healings. Sickness and Divine Intervention. Art Interprets the Miracle in Works from the Thr...
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