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Fra Angelico Biography

orig. Guido di Pietro also known as Beato (“Blessed”) Angelico

(1400 - 1455)

Related Works

1425–28 The Dead Christ with Saints (Courtauld Institute Galleries, London)
1425–30 Madonna of the Star (Museum of S Marco, Florence)
1425–30 Madonna with Child and Two Angels (van Beuningen Collection, The Netherlands)

1428–30 Madonna and Child (S Domenico, Florence)
1429 The Martyrdom of St Peter (Museum of S Marco, Florence)
1430–33 The Madonna of Humility (National Gallery of Art, Washington)
c.1430–33 The Last Judgment (Museum of S Marco, Florence)
1433 Linaiuoli Altarpiece (Museum of S Marco, Florence)
c.1434 The Death and Assumption of the Virgin (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston)
c.1435 Virgin and Child with Angels, Saints, and Donor (Museum of Fine Art, Boston)
c.1435 Coronation of the Virgin (Uffizi, Florence)
1436 The Annunciation (Prado, Madrid)
1436 Lamentation (Museum of S Marco, Florence)

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(born 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 manuscripts and altarpieces. He was influenced by Masaccio's use of architectural perspective. Among his earliest masterpieces is a large triptych, the Linaiuoli Altarpiece (1433–36), executed for the linen merchants' guild; it is enclosed in a marble shrine designed by Lorenzo Ghiberti. His most notable works are frescoes at the monastery of San Marco, Florence ( 1440–45), and in the chapel of Pope Nicholas V in the Vatican ( 1448–49). One of the outstanding fresco painters of the 15th century, he influenced such masters as Fra Filippo Lippi; Benozzo Gozzoli was among his students.