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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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(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.

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