Fra Angelico’s “The Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin.” PHOTO: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston has an exhibit of 13 exquisite works of Fra Angelico (Giovanni da Fiesole, c. 1395-1455) described by Cammy Brothers, Ph.D., visiting professor at Harvard University, in this review in The Wall Street Journal.
The Museum’s website has photographs of the paintings and a video of the Fisherman’s Feast celebrated by the Italian Catholic Community in the Boston area in August each year. This contemporary celebration of the feast of Mary’s Assumption into heaven is linked by the Museum director to Fra Angelico’s magnificent two-tiered painting of the Dormintion of the Blessed Virgin.
Thanks to modern ingenuity these gems of the past can be enjoyed by anyone with access to the internet!