Feb. 18 is the feast of Blessed Fra Angelico, a Dominican friar and painter of the early Italian Renaissance. When Pope John ...

Fra Angelico is the earliest known painter to portray ... of awe and in a pose redolent of the Dominican handbook of prayer ...

Celebrated on February 18, Fra Angelico is one of the most important painters of the first half of the Italian Quattrocento (15th century). He is the patron saint of painters and artists.