Fra Angelico

1390–1455 · Italy · Early Renaissance, Italian Renaissance

John of Fiesole (c. 1395 – 18 February 1455), known posthumously as Fra Angelico or in Italian as Beato Angelico ("Blessed Angelic One"), was an Italian Dominican friar and painter active during the early Florentine Renaissance. Wikipedia

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Pure, luminous colour, gold, sweet devout figures and simple, calm compositions in clear light.

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Works

“Annunciation”, 1425 — Museo del Prado
“Annunciation”, 1438–1450 — Museum of San Marco
“San Marco Altarpiece”, 1438–1443 — Museum of San Marco
“Madonna and Child”, 1430 — Hermitage Museum
“Armadio degli Argenti”, 1450 — Museum of San Marco
“Coronation of the Virgin”, 1425–1450 — Louvre
“Madonna and Child with Four Аngels”, 1420 — Hermitage Museum
“The Last Judgment”, 1431 — Museum of San Marco
“Deposition of Christ”, 1423 — Museum of San Marco
“Coronation of the Virgin”, 1434 — Uffizi Gallery
“Annunciation of Cortona”, 1430–1434 — Diocesan Museum in Cortona
“Adoration of the Magi”, 1430 — National Gallery of Art
“Madonna of Humility”, 1433 — Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
“Crucifixion with St Dominic praying”, 1438 — Louvre
“Tabernacle of the Linaioli”, 1433 — Uffizi Gallery
“Noli me tangere”, 1438 — Museum of San Marco
“Annunciation of San Giovanni Valdarno”, 1430 — Museo della Basilica di Santa Maria delle Grazie
“Fiesole Altarpiece”, 1422 — convent of San Domenico
“The Healing of Justinian by Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian”, 1439 — National Museum of San Matteo
“The Beheading of Saints Cosmas and Damian”, 1440 — Louvre
“Madonna of the Pomegranate”, 1426 — Museo del Prado
“Cortona Triptych”, 1437 — Diocesan Museum in Cortona
“Mocking of Christ”, 1438 — Museum of San Marco
“Christ crowned with thorns”, 1430s — Duomo di Livorno
“Presentation at the Temple”, 1440–1442 — Museum of San Marco
“Adoration of the Magi”, 1441 — Museum of San Marco
“Madonna and child with saints”, 1440 — Museum of San Marco
“Lamentation over the Dead Christ”, 1436 — Museum of San Marco
“Story of saint Nicholas”, 1437 — Vatican Museums
“The Saints Cosmas and Damian with their Brothers before the Proconsul Lysias”, 1443 — Bavarian State Painting Collections
“Crucifixion with Saints”, 1441 — Museum of San Marco
“Perugia Altarpiece”, 1438 — National Gallery of Umbria
“San Pietro Martire Triptych”, 1428 — Museum of San Marco
“St Lawrence Distributing Alms”, 1447 — Apostolic Palace
“Predella of Saints James and Lucia”, 1426 — Philadelphia Museum of Art
“Saint Anthony Abbot Shunning the Mass of Gold”, 1435–1440 — Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
“Condemnation of St Lawrence by the Emperor Valerian”, 1447 — Apostolic Palace
“The Healing of Palladia by Saints Cosmas and Damian”, 1443 — Samuel H. Kress Collection
“Saints Cosmas and Damian and their Brothers Surviving the Stake”, 1443 — National Gallery of Ireland
“Saint Peter Martyr”, 1442 — Museum of San Marco

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