s0229l-FRA ANGELICO born Guido di Pietro 1395 in Mugello, Fiesole, Italy, Fra Giovanni Angelico da Fiesole, The Blessed Fra Angelico, II Beato (The Blessed), painter,
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The Adoration of the Magi 1445 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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Image of posthumous portrait of Fra Angelico by Luca Signorelli, detail of Deeds of the Antichrist fresco (c.1501) in Orvieto Cathedral.
Early works,
1408–1436
Cortona
Annunciation
Fiesole
Altarpiece - Coronation of the Virgin, with predellas of Miracles of St Dominic; Louvre.
Altarpiece - Virgin and Child between Saints Peter, Thomas Aquinas, Dominic and Peter Martyr; see detail, right.
Predella - Christ in Majesty, National Gallery, London.
Florence, Santa Trinita
Deposition of Christ, said by Vasari to have been "painted by a saint or an angel". Now in the National Museum of San Marco, Florence.
Florence, Santa Maria degli Angeli
Last Judgement, Accademia.
Florence, Santa Maria Novella
Altarpiece - Coronation of the Virgin, Uffizi.
San Marco, Florence, 1436–1445
One of several versions of The Annunciation is located in St Mark's Convent.Altarpiece for chancel - Virgin with Saints Cosmas and Damian, attended by Saints Dominic, Peter, Francis, Mark, John Evangelist and Stephen. Cosmas and Damian were patrons of the Medici; the altarpiece was commissioned in 1438 by Cosimo de' Medici. It was removed and disassembled during the renovation of the convent church in the seventeenth century. Two of the nine predella panels remain at the convent; seven are in Washington, Munich, Dublin and Paris. Unexpectedly, in 2006 the last two missing panels, Dominican saints from the side panels, turned up in the estate of a modest collector in Oxfordshire, who had bought them in California in the 1960s.[16]
Altarpiece ? – Madonna and Child with twelve Angels (life sized); Uffizi.
Altarpiece - The Annunciation
Two versions of the Crucifixion with St Dominic; in the Cloister
Very large Crucifixion with Virgin and 20 saints; in the Chapter House
The Annunciation; at the top of the Dormitory stairs. This is probably the most reproduced of all Fra Angelico's paintings.
Virgin enthroned with Four Saints; in the Dormitory passage
In The Annunciation, the interior reproduces that of the cell in which it is located.Each cell is decorated with a fresco which matches in size and shape the single round-headed window beside it. The frescoes are apparently for contemplative purpose. They are have a pale, serene, unearthly beauty. Many of Fra Angelico's finest and most reproduced works are among them. There are, particularly in the inner row of cells, some of less inspiring quality and of more repetitive subject, perhaps completed by assistants.[10] Many pictures include Dominican saints as witnesses, allowing the friar using the cell to place himself in the scene.
The Adoration of the Magi
The Transfiguration
Noli me Tangere
The three Marys at the tomb.
The Road to Emmaus, with two Dominicans as the disciples
There are many versions of the Crucifixion
Late works, 1445–1455
Orvieto Cathedral
Three segments of the ceiling in the Cappella Nuova, with the assistance of Benozzo Gozzoli.
Christ in Glory
The Virgin Mary
The Apostles
Niccoline Chapel
The Chapel of Pope Nicholas V, at the Vatican, was probably painted with much assistance from Benozzo Gozzoli and Gentile da Fabriano. The entire surface of wall and ceiling is sumptuously painted. There is much gold leaf for borders and decoration, and a great use of brilliant blue made from lapis lazuli.
The life of St Stephen
The life of St Lawrence
The Four Evangelists.
Discovery of lost works
Worldwide press coverage reported in November 2006 that two missing masterpieces by Fra Angelico had turned up, having hung in the spare room of the late Jean Preston, in her "modest terrace house" in Oxford, England.