Artist
Fra Angelico
Fra Angelico is an Early Renaissance painter. 61 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum, most of them tempera paintings.
Fra Giovanni da Fiesole (born Guido di Pietro; c. 1395 – 18 February 1455), known posthumously as Fra Angelico ( FRAH an-JEL-ik-oh, Italian: ), was an Italian Dominican friar and painter active during the early Florentine Renaissance. Angelico created a series of frescoes for the Dominican convent of San Marco in Florence, where he received the patronage of Cosimo de' Medici. His works include the San Marco Altarpiece and the Deposition of Christ, both made for the convent of San Marco. Painting exclusively religious subjects throughout his career, Angelico completed commissions in Rome under the patronage of Popes Eugene IV and Nicholas V. Angelico was a pioneer of the artistic trends that came to distinguish the early Renaissance, namely linear perspective and a greater attention to depth and form than had been practised in the late Medieval period. Angelico was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1982. In 1984, John Paul declared him the patron of Catholic artists.
Works by Fra Angelico
The Adoration of the Magi
The Healing of Palladia by Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian
The Crucifixion
The Entombment of Christ
The Madonna of Humility
Madonna of Humility
A Bishop Saint
Entombment of Christ
The Saints Cosmas and Damian with their Brothers before the Proconsul Lysias
Coronation of the Virgin
Madonna and Child
Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian Salvaged
Annunciation
Madonna of the Pomegranate
Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints Peter, Paul and George (?), Four Angels, and a Donor
Collections represented
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