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  • NAME: Fra Angelico
  • OCCUPATION: Painter, Monk
  • BIRTH DATE: c. 1400
  • DEATH DATE: February 18, 1455
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Florence, Italy
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Rome, Italy
  • Originally: Guido di Pietro
  • AKA: Beato (“Blessed”) Angelico
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Dominican friar and painter Fra Angelico lived in Florence during the early 1400s. He is considered one of the best fresco painters of the century.

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Fra Angelico was born in 1400 in Florence, Italy. Between 1420 and 1422 he entered a monastery the San Domenico at Fiesole. He painted altarpieces and manuscripts. Linaiuoli Altarpiece, a triptych enclosed in a marble shrine, was an early masterpiece, but he went on to paint famous frescoes at the monastery of San Marco in Florence and a chapel in the Vatican. He died in 1455.

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