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Fra Angelico, O.P. (born Guido di Pietro; c. 1395 [1] – 18 February 1455) was a Dominican friar and Italian Renaissance painter of the Early Renaissance, described by Giorgio Vasari in his Lives of the Artists as having "a rare and perfect talent". [2]
The work is Fra Angelico's first documented work. It comes from the convent of San Pietro Martire and a document from 30 March 1429 notes a sum of 20 florins owed to the convent of San Domenico, Fiesole , where the painter was a monk.
The work was painted for a side altar in the Convent of San Domenico, Fiesole, where Fra Angelico was a friar.For the same church he also contributed the main altarpiece, showing the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Dominican saints (c. 1425) and the Coronation of the Virgin, now in the Louvre (c. 1424–1435) .
The tabernacle is composed of a rectangular marble frame, with a triangular top with a sculpted almond depicting the "Blessing Christ and Cherubim". In the center, within an arched opening, are Fra Angelico's panel of the Maestà with twelve musician angels. At the front are two shutter panels with further paintings of saints.
Fra Angelico planned the San Marco Altarpiece's iconography around Dominican themes. Within the painting, Angelico references practices of the Dominican Mass. Just as the deacon and subdeacon knelt while helping the Dominican priest during Mass, [ 10 ] Saints Cosmas and Damian kneel in this altarpiece.
The Annunciation of San Giovanni Valdarno is a painting by the Italian Early Renaissance master Fra Angelico, painted c. 1430 to 1432 in tempera on panel. It is part of a series of Annunciation panels painted by Fra Angelico in the 1430s. The other two are the Annunciation of Cortona and the Annunciation.
The Niccoline Chapel (Italian: Cappella Niccolina) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City.It is especially notable for its fresco paintings by Fra Angelico (1447–1451) and his assistants, who may have executed much of the actual work.
Adoration of the Magi (Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi) Annunciation (Fra Angelico, Madrid) Annunciation (Fra Angelico, San Marco) Annunciation of Cortona; Annunciation of San Giovanni Valdarno; Armadio degli Argenti