This brief chapter of art history is often overlooked. Now, an exhibition in New York City makes a strong argument for the ...

Museum staff have shared the history of a rare Italian renaissance painting they managed to save from being sold overseas.

Yet, for head of prints and drawings Martin Clayton, who, here, selects 158 of them (including nine which are double-sided), Renaissance drawings were, with a few exceptions, “working tools”. Often, ...

A rare early masterpiece by the Renaissance painter Fra Angelico has been acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England ...

The Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford has raised £4.5 million to save an early Renaissance painting by Fra ...

WE ALL know what they say about imitation and flattery, in art as in life. Things were no different in Florence during the ...

The Ashmolean Museum raised nearly £4.5 million (€5.4 million) to stop Fra Angelico’s The Crucifixion being sold overseas.

Ashmolean saves Fra Angelico masterpiece for the public, launching the museum as world-leading centre for the study of ...

Ashmolean director Dr Xa Sturgis described the painting as "both very calm, but also very charged" Museum staff have shared the history of a rare Italian renaissance painting they managed to save ...

Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum paid the impressive sum to prevent the rare Italian Renaissance painting from leaving ... one of the principal painters of the Early Renaissance in Florence, in British ...