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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 (ca. 1395–1455) Ross Finocchio. Robert Lehman Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. October 2006. The artist and Dominican friar posthumously called Fra Angelico was known for most of his life as Fra Giovanni, the name he chose when he joined the convent of San Domenico in Fiesole. Not long after his death in 1455, he was ...
Fra Angelico was born in the town of Vicchio di Mugello, northeast of Florence, at the end of the fourteenth century. His birth date, which Vasari reports as 1387 and which has been restated by some scholars as about 1400, was probably about 1390-1395, since in 1417 Guido di Pietro, still a layman, was already documented as a painter, and the ...
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. He entered the monastery of San Domenico at Fiesole sometime between 1420 and 1422 and began his artistic career by painting illuminated ...
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 ...
