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Born in the Mugello about 1395 and named Guido di Pietro, Fra Angelico probably received part of his artistic training in the workshop of Lorenzo Monaco (ca. 1370–1425), a Camaldolese monk and the leading painter and manuscript illuminator in Florence prior to his death.
The Annunciation. The Annunciation, by Fra Angelico, 1432–34, in the Museo Diocesano, Cortona, Italy. The Annunciation, tempera painting on panel that was created as an altarpiece in 1432–34 by Italian artist Fra Angelico, one of several works that he painted on the same theme.
Fra Angelico. Florentine, c. 1395 - 1455. Beato Angelico, il; Giovanni da Fiesole; Guido di Pietro. Biography. Works of Art. Artist Bibliography. Biography. Fra Angelico was born in the town of Vicchio di Mugello, northeast of Florence, at the end of the fourteenth century.
Fra Angelico, orig. Guido di Pietro also known as Beato (“Blessed”) Angelico , (born c. 1400, Vicchio, Florence [Italy]—died Feb. 18, 1455, Rome), Italian painter and Dominican friar active in Florence.
Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro) Italian. ca. 1420–23. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 603. This early work by Fra Angelico, likely made for private devotion, accentuates the drama of Christ’s Crucifixion. In the foreground the Virgin collapses in grief, surrounded by the lamenting Mary Magdalen and Mary of Cleofas.
active 1417; died 1455. Fra Angelico was one of the principal painters of the Early Renaissance in Florence. He is first recorded as a painter in 1417, and at about the same time became a novice at the Friary of San Domenico at Fiesole near Florence, where he mainly lived, eventually becoming Prior.
In commemoration of the five hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the death of Fra Angelico (about 1395–1455), one of the foremost artists of the Italian Renaissance, The Metropolitan Museum of Art set out to reexamine his career and to establish a more historically accurate profile of the innovative, extraordinarily gifted "angelic friar," in or...
