London Gallery Weekend The capital’s commercial gallery scene perhaps needs this booster celebration that features talks, openings and fun in a host of glamorous venues. • Galleries across London, until 2 June
Flora Yukhnovich and François Boucher: The Language of the Rococo A 21st-century artist responds to the sensuality and painterly dash of this museum’s unrivalled collection of 18th-century rococo masterpieces. • Wallace Collection, London, from 5 June to 3 November
Lost and found … Ecce Homo by Caravaggio. Photograph: Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP/Getty Images
This small but luminous oil painting of the scourged Christ had been due to go under the hammer for €1,500 in April, but was saved after experts at the Prado rang Spain’s culture ministry to share their suspicions that the painting had been misattributed. After painstaking examination and restoration the work was finally authenticated as a Caravaggio and is now is on display in all its priceless glory. Read the full story.
In his Life of Fra Angelico, the 16th-century writer Giorgio Vasari praises his true piety and says all religious artists should be as Christian as him – which prompts the question of which ones were not. Vasari was right that Fra Angelico’s faith is intense and makes his art both simple and sublime. He was a Dominican friar and painted this for the church of his own convent in Fiesole, near Florence. It is part of a large altarpiece he did free of charge. Fra Angelico’s holiness did not hold his career back: he was also commissioned by Cosimo de’ Medici to fresco San Marco in Florence in what is one of the wonders of religious art. Why did this humble artist appeal so much to the sophisticates of Renaissance Florence? Look at the faces of the male and female Dominicans in this heavenly scene and they are all sensitively characterised with an eye for human individuality. Mystical as his worldview may be, Fra Angelico is a pioneer of realism. • National Gallery, London
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Matthew Barney, Field Panel, featuring in London Gallery Weekend. Photograph: David Regen/© Matthew Barney. Courtesy the Artist, Gladstone Gallery, Sadie Coles HQ, Regen Projects, and Galerie Max Hetzler. 
