Fra Angelico
1400 – 1455
Florentine painter, a Dominican friar, originally named Guido di Pietro. Although in popular tradition he has been seen as 'not an artist properly so-called but an inspired saint', (Ruskin), Angelico was in fact a highly professional artist, who was in touch with the most advanced developments in contemporary Florentine art and in later life travelled extensively for prestigious commissions. Angelico entered a Dominican convent in Fiesole in 1418 and became a friar using the name Giovanni da Fiesole.
242 artworks in collection
Locations
Works
Crucifixion with the Virgin, John the Evangelist, and Mary Magdelene
Private collection1419
St Nicholas of Bari
Private collection1423
St Michael
Private collection1423
The Meeting of Sts Dominic and Francis of Assisi
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco1434
St Romuald
Private collection1440
Crucified Christ with the Virgin, St John the Evangelist and Cardinal Juan de Torquemada
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge1440
Crucifixion with the Virgin and Sts Cosmas, John the Evangelist and Peter Martyr (Cell 38)
Convento di San Marco, Florence1441
Crucifixion with Mourners and Sts Dominic and Thomas Aquinas (Cell 37)
Convento di San Marco, Florence1441
Crucifixion with the Virgin, Mary Magdalene and St Dominic (Cell 25)
Convento di San Marco, Florence1441
St Lawrence Receives the Treasures of the Church (detail)
Cappella Niccolina, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican1447
The Story of St Nicholas: The Liberation of Three Innocents
Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia1447
Condemnation of St Lawrence by the Emperor Valerian
Cappella Niccolina, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican1447
St Sixtus Entrusts the Church Treasures to Lawrence
Cappella Niccolina, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican1447
