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  1. Fra Angelico (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series) by Laurence Kanter, Pia Palladino, 2005-11-11
  2. Fra Angelico: Colour Library by Christopher Lloyd, 1998-08-12
  3. Fra Angelico by John T. Spike, 1997-05-01
  4. Fra Angelico: Art and Religion in the Renaissance by Rosalind Mutter, 2008-02-01
  5. Fra Angelico by Diane Cole Ahl, 2008-04-02
  6. The Life of Fra Angelico Da Fiesole by Thomas G. Goodwin, 2010-02-04
  7. Fra Angelico: Dissemblance and Figuration by Georges Didi-Huberman, 1995-10-15
  8. The Rosary with Fra Angelico and Giotto by Domenico Marcucci, 2005-04-20
  9. Fra Angelico: The San Marco Frescoes by Paolo Morachiello, Fra Angelico, 1996-11
  10. Fra Angelico at San Marco by Professor William Hood, 1993-04-28
  11. Vanishing Point: The Woman of Porto Pim ; The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico by Antonio; Parks, Tim Tabucchi, 1993
  12. Fra Angelico: San Marco, Florence (The Great Fresco Cycles of the Renaissance) by William Hood, Fra Angelico, 1995-10
  13. Fra Angelico (Los Grandes Maestros Del Arte Series) (Spanish Edition) by John Wyndham, Sir Pope-Hennessy, 1992-12
  14. Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance Drawings by Hugo Chapman, Marzia Faietti, 2010-03-08

1. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Fra Angelico
Visit New Advent for the Summa Theologica, Church Fathers, Catholic Encyclopedia and more. full appellation today is that of "Blessed fra angelico Giovanni da Fiesole". He and his supposed younger brother his death in 1448. fra angelico, who during a residence at Foligno
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angels , human but in form, robed with the hues of the sunrise and sunset, and his supremely earnest saints and martyrs are permeated with the sincerest of religious feeling. His early training in miniature and illumination had its influence in his more important works, with their robes of golden embroidery, their decorative arrangements and details, and pure, brilliant colours. As for the early studies in art of Fra Angelico, nothing is known. His painting shows the influence of the Siennese school, and it is thought he may have studied under Gherardo, Starnina, or Lorenzo Monaco. On account of the struggle for the pontifical throne between Gregory XII , Benedict XIII, and Alexander V, Fra Giovanni and his brother, being adherents of the first named, had in 1409 to leave Fiesole, taking refuge in the convent of their order established at Foligno in Umbria. The pest devastating that place in 1414, the brothers went to Cortona, where they spent four years and then returned to Fiesole. There Fra Angelico remained for sixteen years. He was then invited to Florence to decorate the new Convent of San Marco which had just been allotted to his order, and of which Cosmo de' Medici was a munificent patron. At Cortona are found some of his best pictures. It was at Florence, however, where he spent nine years, that he painted his most important works. In 1445, Pope Eugenius IV invited Fra Angelico to Rome and gave him work to do in the Vatican, where he painted for him and for his successor

2. Patron Saints Index: Blessed Fra Angelico
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FRA ANGELICO
Also known as
Angelico; Beato; Fra Giovanni; Giovanni da Fiesole; Giovanni de Fiesole; Guido di Pietro; John of Fiesole; Painter of the Angels
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18 March
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Joined the Dominicans in Fiesole, Italy in , taking the name Fra Giovanna. Taught to illuminate missals and manuscripts. He immediately exhibited a natural talent, as an artist and his works can be seen in Cortona, Fiesole, Florence , and the Vatican. His dedication to religious art earned him the title Angelico
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18 March in the Dominican convent at Rome Italy of natural causes
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3. Fra Angelico Online
fra angelico Italian Early Renaissance Painter, C.13871455 Guide to pictures of works by fra angelico in art museum sites and image archives worldwide. fra angelico art links/last verified January 3, 2004 Beato Angelico . Relationships fra angelico's students included Alessio Baldovinetti and Benozzo Gozzoli.
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Fra Angelico's students included Alessio Baldovinetti and Benozzo Gozzoli Specializes in Religious Subjects
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Paintings in Museums and Art Galleries: Hermitage Museum , Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Reliquary with Christ and Angels
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4. Biography
Biography. fra angelico was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance who combined the life of a devout friar with that of an accomplished painter.
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ANGELICO, Fra
(b. ca. 1400, Vicchio nell Mugello, d. 1455, Roma)
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Originally named Guido di Pietro, Angelico was born in Vicchio, Tuscany. He entered a Dominican convent in Fiesole in 1418 and became a friar using the name Giovanni da Fiesole. Although his teacher is unknown, he apparently began his career as an illuminator of missals and other religious books. He began to paint altarpieces and other panels; among his important early works are the Madonna of the Star (1428?-1433, San Marco, Florence) and Christ in Glory Surrounded by Saints and Angels (National Gallery, London), which depicts more than 250 distinct figures. Among other works of that period are two of the Coronation of the Virgin (San Marco and Louvre, Paris) and The Deposition and The Last Judgment (San Marco). His mature style is first seen in the Madonna of the Linen Weavers (1433, San Marco), which features a border with 12 music-making angels. In 1436 some of the Dominican friars of Fiesole moved to the convent of San Marco in Florence, which had recently been rebuilt by Michelozzo.

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(born c. 1387-1400, died 1455) See also: Renaissance Artists VIEW IMAGE LIST "Fra Angelico was a Dominican friar in the monastery at Fiesole. The convent of San Marco was taken over by his Order in 1436, and he was commissioned to decoarte the friar's cells with frescoes painted directly on to wet plaster walls. These were intended to stimulate prayer and meditation rather than to be a factual record of the Biblical story. He wanted to represent the sacredness of Christ in all its glory and simplicity; although he understood the principles of perspective, as seen here in the rendition of the tomb door, these were often sacrificed for a simple style. In the nineteenth century Angelico's painting captured the imagination of the Pre-Raphaelites, who saw in them the charm of a pure faith. In this fresco , Christ appears to Mary Magdalene. She has been weeping after discovering that his tomb is empty. A figure appears. At first she mistakes him for a gardener as he is carrying a hoe. Suddenly realizing who it is, she goes to embrace him. But he moves away, telling her not to touch him - literally 'Noli Me Tangere'." From "The A-Z of Art: The World's Greatest and Most Popular Artists and Their Works" , by Nicola Hodge and Libby Anson Buy Fra Angelico
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6. Beato Angelico
Frà Giovanni da Fiesole. known as Beato Angelico. Painter. Vicchio di Mugello 1400 ca.Rome 1455. He first started painting in 1417 and shortly afterwards entered the Convent of San Domenico at Fiesole, eventually becoming its Prior. whose plastic and spatial concepts were interpreted by fra angelico in the form of light and colour. really a museum dedicated to the work of fra angelico.
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known as Beato Angelico
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Vicchio di Mugello 1400 ca.-Rome 1455

He first started painting in 1417 and shortly afterwards entered the Convent of San Domenico at Fiesole, eventually becoming its Prior. His first known works include some illuminated manuscripts and the Triptych of San Domenico ( Museum of St. Mark ), which still denotes Gothic trends as well as the clear influence of Lorenzo Monaco and Gentile da Fabriano.
Deposition in St.Trinita
From the time he painted the Triptych of San Pietro (1430, St. Mark Museum ) he was more and more influenced by the work of Masaccio , whose plastic and spatial concepts were interpreted by Fra Angelico in the form of light and colour.
He became the most important Florentine painter of his time after he completed the famous Tabernacle of the Flax Dressers (1433, Museum of St. Mark Renaissance though its mystic content was more interested in creating an ideal beauty, untouched by sin, rather than the exaltation of man, while its diaphanous light was not a Gothic leftover but a very personal (and somewhat Dominican ) interpretation of the latest cultural ideas.

7. WebMuseum: Angelico, Fra
Angelico, Fra. Angelico, Fra (Guido di Pietro) (c. 140055). Florentine painter, a Dominican friar. Although in popular tradition
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Angelico, Fra (Guido di Pietro) (c. 1400-55). Florentine painter, a Dominican friar. Although in popular tradition he has been seen as `not an artist properly so-called but an inspired saint' (Ruskin), Angelico was in fact a highly professional artist, who was in touch with the most advanced developments in contemporary Florentine art and in later life travelled extensively for prestigious commissions. He probably began his career as a manuscript illuminator, and his early paintings are strongly influenced by International Gothic . But even in the most lavishly decorative of them all the Annunciation in the Diocesan Museum in Cortona Masaccio's incluence is evident in the insistent perspective of the architecture. For most of his career Angelico was based in S. Domenico in Fiesole (he became Prior there in 1450), but his most famous works were painted at S. Marco in Florence (now an Angelico museum), a Sylvestrine monastry which was taken over by his Order in 1436. He and his assistants painted about fifty frescos in the friary (c.1438-45) that are at once the expression of and a guide to the spiritual life of the community. Many of the frescos are in the friars' cells and were intended as aids to devotion; with their immaculate coloring, their economy in drawing and composition, and their freedom from the accidents of time and place, they attain a sense of blissful serenity. In the last decade of his life Angelico also worked in Orvieto and Perugia, and most importantly in Rome, where he frescoed the private chapel of Pope Nicholas V in the Vatican with

8. Blessed Fra Angelico
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Blessed Fra Angelico, OP (PC)
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Born in Mugello near Florence, Italy, in 1386 or 1387; died in Rome, Italy, in 1455. Guido da Vicchio's innate talent for art was supplemented by the natural beauty of his native Tuscany. He studied under several master artists when Italy was most conscious of the spirit of Giotto and Cimabue, and their influence was always to give a certain unearthly aspect to his paintings. When he was still quite young, and already a recognized artist, he entered the Dominican monastery at Fiesole with his brother Benedetto in 1407. It is a tribute to the ability and sanctity of both brothers that their names stand out in such distinguished company, for some of the greatest men of the order were housed in the same priory: Blesseds John Dominici Peter Capucci , and Lawrence of Ripafratta (f.d. September 28), and St. Antoninus of Florence . The latter, when he was appointed archbishop, was to commission some of the two artists' finest work. Few personal details are known about Brother John of the Angels, who is known as Fra Angelico in secular history. He was a priest. His painting in Florence was sufficiently well-known and admired to merit his being called to Rome to decorate the Chapel of Nicholas V at the Vatican. In 1449, he was appointed prior of San Marco, which he decorated with his wonderful paintings, and held that office for three years. He may have been recalled to Rome in 1454; he died there in 1455 at the Dominican friary of La Minerva. In much the same way as

9. Fra Angelico - Olga's Gallery
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Fiesole Triptych. 1424-1430. Adapted by Lorenzo di Credi in 1501. Tempera on panel. 212 x 217 cm. San Domenico, Fiesole, Italy. Madonna and Child with Angels. c. 1425. Tempera on panel. 80 x 51 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. San Pietro Martire Triptych. 1428/29. Tempera on panel. 137 x 168 cm. Museo di San Marco, Florence, Italy. Certosa del Galluzzo Triptych. 1428-30. Tempera on panel. 170 x 79 cm (each panel). Museo di San Marco, Florence, Italy. Madonna Surrounded by Angels. Altarpiece of the Annunciation. c. 1430-1432. Tempera on panel. 194 x 194. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. More. The Last Judgement. c.1431. Tempera on wood. 105 x 210 cm. Museo di San Marco, Florence, Italy. More. The Last Judgement. Detail: The Blessed. c.1431. Tempera on wood. 105 x 210 cm. Museo di San Marco, Florence, Italy. The Last Judgement. Detail: The Blessed. c.1431. Tempera on wood. 105 x 210 cm. Museo di San Marco, Florence, Italy. The Last Judgement. Detail: The Damned.

10. Fra 1 Cross-View
fra angelico (1400? 1455) Italian painter of the early Renaissance, who combined the life of a devout He was called Angelico (Italian for "angelic") and Beato (Italian for "blessed
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Fra Angelico (1400? - 1455)
Italian painter of the early Renaissance, who combined the life of a devout friar with that of an accomplished painter. He was called Angelico (Italian for "angelic") and Beato (Italian for "blessed") because the paintings he did were of calm, religious subjects and because of his extraordinary personal piety.
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Saint Anthony the Abbott Tempted by a Lump of Gold

11. Fra Angelico Image Gallery
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12. ANGELICO, Fra
ANGELICO, Fra. Italian painter, Florentine school (b. ca. 1400, Vicchio nell Mugello, d. 1455, Roma). Preview, Picture Data, File Info, Comment.
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ANGELICO, Fra Italian painter, Florentine school (b. ca. 1400, Vicchio nell Mugello, d. 1455, Roma) Preview Picture Data File Info Comment Christ the Judge
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To Biography. Graphic Glorification of Saint Dominic, 67v, Missal no. 558, Illuminated Manuscript, Museo di San Marco at Florence. 224KB
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Glorification of Saint Dominic, 67v, Missal no. 558, Illuminated Manuscript, Museo di San Marco at Florence. 224KB Christ Glorified in the Court of Heaven, panel, National Gallery, London. 213KB The Annunciation, late 1430s, fresco, Museo di San Marco at Florence. 133KB The Naming of St. John the Baptist, early 1430s, Museo di San Marco at Florence. 134KB Annunciation, 1432-43, Museo Diocesano, Cortona. 131KB Adoration of the Magi, 1433-35, Museo San Marco in Florence. 163KB The Annunciation, detail, 1435-45, tempera on wood, Museo del Prado at Madrid. 167KB Lamentation over the Dead Christ, 1436, Museo di San Marco, Florence. 129KB The Coronation of the Virgin, 1440-41, upper floor, cell 9 at Museo di San Marco at Florence. 165KB Noli Me Tangere, 1440-41, fresco, San Marco at Florence. 144KB Transfiguration, 1440-41, fresco, San Marco at Florence. 140KB The Mocking of Christ (with Benozzo Gozzoli), 1440-41, fresco, San Marco at Florence. 138KB
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The life of Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, baptized as Guido di Piero (born around 1395 in Vicchio di Mugello, died in Rome in 1455) is the stuff of legend. “Angelic” was how he came to be known soon after his death; the name “Beato” was a comment on his painting and not a reference to his beatification, which happened only recently, in 1984. Fra Angelico was a Dominican, and a mendicant, so, not being part of a closed order, he was free to meet and talk to others in the city. In 1420-1422, he entered the convent of San Domenico in Fiesole with his brother Benedetto. It was here that he produced his first works: altarpiece for the high altar, Altarpiece of the Annunciation The Coronation of the Virgin , as well as the frescoes for his monastery. Fra Angelico not only gained recognition as a painter, but must have commanded respect in his convent because he was appointed Vicario for the first time in Fiesole from 1432/33, a post he was to hold frequently in later years. In the 1430’s the painter worked in Florentine churches. He carried out the following commissions for the Dominicans in Cortona: the Cortona Triptych and the Annunciation panel. From 1438, he worked on his most important commission, the

19. Fra Angelico: The Resurrection
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Museum of St. Mark or fra angelico Frescoes in the cells fra angelico. Entrance to the museum can be found on the right of the church.
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Entrance to the museum can be found on the right of the church . Cosimo the Elder commissioned Michelozzo , his trusted architect, to carry out the restoration of the Bell Tower and the crumbling Monastery of the abolished order of Silvestrini Friars. Angelico (Guido o Guidolino di Pietro, Vicchio di Mugello 1387 - Rome 1455), a friar from the Monastery of San Domenico , moved in here with his brothers and worked on the famous frescoes of the 42 cells, the cloister, the chapter house and the first floor corridors from 1438 to 1446.
This was where Lorenzo the Magnificent, later to be his bitter foe, sent Savonarola ,to act as Father Superior, until his martyrdom at the stake - after Lorenzo's death - in Piazza della Signoria
Bartolomeo della Porta, Renaissance painter and follower of Savonarola , also joined the Dominican community here.
The building came under the control of the Government in 1860 and was opened to the public in 1869. The museum dedicated to Fra Angelico was opened in the 1920's with the help of various financial sources.
The First Cloister (of Sant'Antonino) is a perfect example of Renaissance monastic architecture, decorated with flower beds and a majestic Cedar of Lebanon. It contains 17th century frescoes and paintings by Fra Angelico, whose finest paintings on wood - the famous Annalena Altarpiece, the St. Mark Altarpiece, the intense Deposition of the Holy Trinity and the Last Judgement - can be found in the ancient Pilgrims' Hospice. The Hospice also contains the Tabernacle of the Flax Dressers (1433), carved by Ghiberti and painted by Fra Angelico.

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