Word: angelico
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Among them: Raphael's Madonna of the Chair, Fra Angelico's Marriage of the Virgin, sculptures by Donatello, Cellini and Michelangelo, all from Florence's museums...
...Gronchi laid a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and the National Gallery of Art stayed open after closing time to accommodate Gronchi's handsome signora. At the gallery Gronchi told his guides how much he admired its selections from the work of his countryman, Fra Angelico, and then he made a comment about the U.S. that was calculated to echo in Italy: "One visit like this is more than enough to dispel the erroneous idea prevalent in Europe that the American idea is to use money to get money. I find that, on the contrary, money...
...Opening an exhibition in Rome to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Fra Angelico's death (TIME, May 2), Pope...
Pius XII called him "an outstanding painter characterized by deep spirituality, an innovator, sympathetic, effective, sincere, perfect. The picture world of Fra Angelico is truly the ideal world, whose atmosphere glows with peace, holiness, harmony and joy, whose reality is in the future, when finally justice will triumph on the new earth and in the new heavens...
...reproductions of the paintings by Fra Angelico are beautiful beyond description...