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Crucifixion with Mourners and St Dominic (c. 1436) by Fra Angelico. Crucifixion with Mourners and St Dominic is a fresco fragment by the Italian early Renaissance painter Fra Angelico, executed c. 1435, from the refectory of the Convent of San Domenico, Fiesole, now in the Louvre.
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]
A similar fresco from c.1438 of the Madonna and Child with St Dominic and St Peter Martyr by the same artist survives above the doorway of the church of San Domenico in Cortona, whilst the same artist's Crucifixion with Mourners and St Dominic (Louvre) originated at San Domenico in Fiesole. [2]
Wedding at Cana, Baptism and Transfiguration Fra Angelico, Flight into Egypt Fra Angelico, Massacre of the Innocents From drawings by Fra Angelico, Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet The panels of the Armadio degli Argenti (Italian: Wardrobe of the Silversmiths ) are a series of tempera paintings on panel created by Fra Angelico ca. 1451–1453 ...
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 ...
A museum has raised almost £4.5m to save a rare Italian renaissance painting. The Ashmolean Museum, which is part of the University of Oxford, paid £4.48m for the 1420s crucifixion painting by ...
Crucifixion with Mourners and St Dominic; D. Deposition of Christ (Fra Angelico) F. Fiesole Altarpiece; L. The Last Judgment (Fra Angelico, Florence) M.
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.