The Gardner Museum's chief conservator Gianfranco Pocobene and senior preparator David Kalan prepare the display space for Fra Angelico's "Coronation of the Virgin." (Robin Lubbock/WBUR ...

Fra Angelico painted for two popes and the Medici ... offers the Christ Child for their homage. The Coronation of the Virgin depicts a remarkable celestial scene, with Christ crowning Mary.

Thus wrote Giorgio Vasari, known as the father of art history, in 1550 about “The Coronation of the Virgin” (ca. 1450) by Fra Angelico, the saintly Dominican friar-painter who is the subject ...

Above the Marian altar, as the backdrop behind the statue of Our Lady and the Child Jesus, is the magnificent Coronation of the Virgin. Fra Angelico completed the original around 1432-34.

"The Fra Angelico Room marks a crucial moment in ... followed by one containing two tondos depicting the Crucifixion and the Coronation of the Virgin painted in the 1440s. They are displayed ...