Editing Fra Angelico (section)

===Discovery of lost works===
Worldwide press coverage reported in November 2006 that two missing masterpieces by Fra Angelico had turned up, having hung in the spare room of the late Jean Preston, in her terrace house in [[Oxford]], England. Her father had bought them for £100 each in the 1960s then bequeathed them to her when he died.<ref name="Morris_20April_2007"/> Preston, an expert medievalist, recognised them as being high-quality Florentine renaissance, but did not realize that they were works by Fra Angelico until they were identified in 2005 by Michael Liversidge of Bristol University.<ref>{{cite news 
  | last =Morris
  | first =Steven 
  | title =A £1m art find behind the spare room door
  | newspaper =[[The Guardian]]
  | date = 14 November 2006
  | url =http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1947030,00.html
  | access-date =2007-09-28  }}</ref>  There was almost no demand at all for medieval art during the 1960s and no dealers showed any interest, so Preston's father bought them almost as an afterthought along with some manuscripts. The paintings are two of eight side panels of a large altarpiece painted in 1439 for Fra Angelico's monastery at San Marco, which was later split up by [[Napoleon]]'s army. While the centre section is still at the monastery, the other six small panels are in German and US museums. These two panels were presumed lost forever. The Italian Government had hoped to purchase them but they were outbid at auction on 20 April 2007 by a private collector for £1.7M.<ref name="Morris_20April_2007">{{cite news 
  | last =Morris
  | first =Steven 
  | title =Lost altar masterpieces found in spare bedroom fetch £1.7m
  | newspaper =[[The Guardian]]
  | date = 20 April 2007
  | url =http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2061644,00.html
  | access-date =2007-09-28  }}</ref> Both panels are now restored and exhibited in the San Marco Museum in Florence.