Fra Angelico Etched the Divine in Stone

Fra Angelico Etched the Divine in Stone

FLORENCE, Italy — As Italy celebrates its largest Fra Angelico retrospective since 1955, at the Palazzo Strozzi and Museo di San Marco, it’s easy to overlook the small details in favor of the grandiosity of the art and the feat of bringing it together in one place. But look at the marble surface on which John the Baptist stands in the Perugia Altarpiece. The veiled symbolism of the veined stones has flown under the radar in most major English-la…