Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Pages in category "Fresco paintings in the Museo Nazionale di San Marco" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Annunciation of Cortona was painted by Fra Angelico in 1433–1434, in tempera on panel, 175 cm x 180 cm. [1]. This is one of three Annunciations by Fra Angelico on panel (the other two are in the Prado Museum, and the Museo della Basilica di Santa Maria delle Grazie, in San Giovanni Valdarno.
The Annunciation (c. 1440–1445) [1] is an Early Renaissance fresco by Fra Angelico in the Convent of San Marco in Florence, Italy. When Cosimo de' Medici rebuilt the convent, he commissioned Fra Angelico to decorate the walls with intricate frescos.
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.
Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico in San Marco (c. 1441-1442) The Adoration of the Magi in San Marco is a fresco by Fra Angelico in a double cell used by Cosimo de' Medici, created c. 1441-1442. [1] The paintings in the double cell differ in some respects from Fra Angelico's frescos in others cells.
In each cell is a fresco concerning the life and passion of Christ, for the exclusive contemplation of the friar occupying the cell. [2] This cycle of frescoes, unique in the world, is considered to be completely the work of Fra Angelico, although he was helped by assistants. Annunciation by Fra Angelico (cell 3)
The work is not thought to have originally been painted around 1434 (a few years after the similar painting in the Uffizi) for the convent of San Domenico of Fiesole, near Florence, where Fra Angelico was a Dominican friar and for which he painted also the Fiesole Altarpiece (1424-1425) and the Annunciation now at the Museo del Prado.
Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi, Adoration of the Magi, c. 1440/1460. The Adoration of the Magi is a tondo, or circular painting, of the Adoration of the Magi assumed to be that recorded in 1492 in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence as by Fra Angelico. It dates from the mid-15th century and is now in the National Gallery of Art in ...