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Fra Angelico · 1420

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Fra Angelico

Italian · 1400–1455

Italian RenaissanceEarly Renaissance

Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, known posthumously as Fra Angelico, was an Italian Dominican friar and painter active during the early Florentine Renaissance.

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Annunciation
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Annunciation

Fra Angelico · 1420

Museo del Prado

Madonna of Humility
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Madonna of Humility

Fra Angelico · c. 1425

Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

Saints Cosmas and Damian and their Brothers Surviving the Stake
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Saints Cosmas and Damian and their Brothers Surviving the Stake

Fra Angelico · 1438

National Gallery of Ireland

Madonna and Child
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Madonna and Child

Fra Angelico · 1430

State Hermitage Museum

Coronation of the Virgin
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Coronation of the Virgin

Fra Angelico · 1434

Uffizi Gallery

The Entombment of Christ

Fra Angelico

National Gallery of Art

The Healing of Palladia by Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian

Fra Angelico

National Gallery of Art

The Madonna of Humility

Fra Angelico

National Gallery of Art

Works worth knowing

6 of Fra Angelico's works, and what makes each one worth a look.

Annunciation
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Annunciation

Fra Angelico · 1420

Museo del Prado

The Prado Annunciation is an altarpiece painted by the Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni da Fiesole, known as Fra Angelico, in the 1420s. It is one of his best-known works. Originally destined for the convent of the observant Dominicans of Fiesole, the painting is currently in the collection of the Museo del Prado in Madrid.

Madonna of Humility
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Madonna of Humility

Fra Angelico · c. 1425

Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

The Madonna of Humility is a tempera-on-wood painting by Fra Angelico, executed in 1433 to 1435, which belongs to the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid and is conserved on loan at the National Art Museum of Catalonia. The Virgin seated on a cushion placed directly on the ground with the child standing on her lap, holds a vase in her left hand which contains roses and a lily, symbols of motherhood and purity. The Child, who is also holding a lily, rests his forehead on his mother's cheek.

Madonna and Child
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Madonna and Child

Fra Angelico · 1430

State Hermitage Museum

Madonna and Child is a c. 1435 fresco fragment by the Italian Renaissance master Fra Angelico in the sacra conversazione style. It was originally painted in the dormitory of the Convent of San Domenico, Fiesole.

Coronation of the Virgin
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Coronation of the Virgin

Fra Angelico · 1434

Uffizi Gallery

The Coronation of the Virgin is a painting of the Coronation of the Virgin by the Italian early Renaissance painter Fra Angelico, executed around 1432. It is now in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence. The artist executed another Coronation of the Virgin (c.

The Entombment of Christ

Fra Angelico

National Gallery of Art

The Entombment is an unfinished oil-on-panel painting of the burial of Jesus, now generally attributed to the Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti and dated to around 1500 or 1501. It is in the National Gallery in London, which purchased the work in 1868 from Robert Macpherson, a Scottish photographer resident in Rome, who, according to various conflicting accounts, had acquired the painting there some 20 years earlier. It is one of a handful of paintings attributed to Michelangelo, alongside the Manchester Madonna, the Doni Tondo, and possibly, The Torment of Saint Anthony.

The Madonna of Humility

Fra Angelico

National Gallery of Art

The Madonna of Humility is a tempera-on-wood painting by Fra Angelico, executed in 1433 to 1435, which belongs to the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid and is conserved on loan at the National Art Museum of Catalonia. The Virgin seated on a cushion placed directly on the ground with the child standing on her lap, holds a vase in her left hand which contains roses and a lily, symbols of motherhood and purity. The Child, who is also holding a lily, rests his forehead on his mother's cheek.

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