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Fra AngelicoArtworks. View all 168 artworks. Fra Angelico lived in the XIV – XV cent., a remarkable figure of Italian Early Renaissance. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Fra Angelico, OP (born Guido di Pietro; c. 1395 – 18 February 1455) was a Dominican friar and Italian painter of the Early Renaissance, described by Giorgio Vasari in his Lives of the Artists as having "a rare and perfect talent".
Learn about the life and works of Fra Angelico, a Dominican friar and Early Renaissance painter who created some of the most moving frescoes and altarpieces of the period. Explore his innovative use of perspective, color, and emotion in depicting religious scenes such as The Last Judgement and The Deposition of Christ.
- Italian
- Vicchio di Mugello, Florence
Learn about the life and achievements of Fra Angelico, a Dominican friar and one of the most influential painters of the early Renaissance. Explore his stylistic innovations, his frescoes in San Marco, and his altarpieces and panels in the Met collection.
Title: The Crucifixion. Artist: Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro) (Italian, Vicchio di Mugello ca. 1395–1455 Rome) Date: ca. 1420–23. Medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground. Dimensions: 25 1/8 x 19 in. (63.8 x 48.3 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Maitland F. Griggs Collection, Bequest of Maitland F. Griggs, 1943. Accession Number: 43.98.5.
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Fra Angelico, Italian painter, one of the greatest 15th-century artists, whose early Renaissance works embody a serene religious attitude and reflect a strong Classical influence. He is best known for the frescoes he created for the church and priory of San Marco in Florence while he was in residence there.
Comprising about seventy-five paintings, drawings, and manuscript illuminations ascribed to Angelico and spanning the period from 1410 to 1455, as well as about forty works by his collaborators, this presentation includes several newly discovered paintings and a number of new proposals for reconstructions of important, dispersed altarpieces.
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