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Watercolour, copy after The Ordination of St Stephen and St Stephen Distributing Alms, Fra Angelico in the Niccoline Chapel (Vatican, Rome), by Fra Angelico, watercolor, 1877

Watercolour, copy after The Ordination of St Stephen and St Stephen Distributing Alms, Fra Angelico in the Niccoline Chapel (Vatican, Rome)

Fra Angelico

1877

watercolor

From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum

Dominant colour

Overview

Watercolour, copy after The Ordination of St Stephen and St Stephen Distributing Alms, Fra Angelico in the Niccoline Chapel (Vatican, Rome) is a 1877 watercolor by Fra Angelico, a byzantine_iconography work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Who painted this?
Fra Angelico
When & what style?
1877 · byzantine_iconography
Where can I see it?
Victoria and Albert Museum

About this work

This painting shows a scene of St Stephen distributing alms. It's a copy of a fresco by Fra Angelico. The copy was made for the Arundel Society, which wanted to share art with more people. The artist who made this copy, Eduard Kaiser, was trying to learn from the old masters. To learn more about the style that inspired this painting, look at the work of artist: Angelico, Fra.

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