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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]
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 priest would also stand in the center of ...
Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro), OP: 1455: 1982 Francesco Bonifacio: 1946: 2008 Francesco Faà di Bruno: 1888: 1988 Francesco Spoto: 1964: 2007 Francinaina Cirer Carbonell: 1855: 1989 Francis of Fabriano: 1322: 1775 Francis Xavier Seelos: 1867: 2000 Francisca de Paula de Jesus (Nhá Chica) 1895: 2013 Francisco de Paula Victor: 1905: 2015 ...
The Madonna of Humility is a tempera-on-wood painting by Fra Angelico, executed in 1433–1435, which belongs to the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid and is conserved on loan at the National Art Museum of Catalonia. [1]
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 free-to-visit museum has another painting from the end of Fra Angelico's career which means visitors can now see how his art developed throughout his life.
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.
Madonna and Child is a c.1435 fresco fragment by the Italian Renaissance master Fra Angelico in the sacra conversazione style. It was originally painted in the dormitory of the Convent of San Domenico, Fiesole.