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Fra Angelico

[Italian Early Renaissance Painter, ca.1387-1455]

• Also known as:	Guido di Pietro da Mugello Fra Giovanni da Fiesole Beato Angelico
• Relationships:	Fra Angelico's students included Alessio Baldovinetti and Benozzo Gozzoli.
• Subject matter:	Specializes in Religious Subjects.
• Browse all: Italian artists

Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:

Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Fra Angelico at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Meeting of St. Francis and St. Dominic, ca.1430

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Madonna and Child with four angels, ca.1425
Reliquary with Christ and Angels, 1425-30
The Virgin and Child with SS Dominic and Thomas Aquinas, 1424-30

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Saints, 1430

Fra Angelico at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Coronation of the Virgin, ca.1430-32

Fra Angelico in the Louvre Museum Database, Paris (only available in French)

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Saint Benedict, ca.1440
The Nativity

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Saint Anthony Shunning the Mass of Gold, ca.1435-40

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online

Fra Angelico at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
4 works by Fra Angelico

Fra Angelico at the National Gallery, London, UK
8 paintings online

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)

Vatican Museums, Vatican City
Stories of St Nicholas of Bari
Madonna and Child with Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Annunciation

Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)   NEW!
Scenes from Boccaccio's Il ninfale fiesolano, ca.1415-20

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Coronation of the Virgin

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
11 works by or related to the artist

Flemish Art Collection Database (in Dutch)   NEW!

Galleria Borghese, Rome
Last Judgement

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
The Apostle Saint James Freeing the Magician Hermogenes

Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Madonna of Humility

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 works by Fra Angelico online

Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Saint Michael, 1424-25

Prado Museum, Madrid (new website, can be quite slow)
The Annunciation, ca.1426

Samuel H. Kress Foundation Collection

State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy   NEW!

Strossmayer's Old Master Gallery, Croatia
Sigmatization of St. Francis of Assi and Death of St. Peter the Martyr

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
The Madonna of Humility, ca.1433-35

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• Art auction prices for Fra Angelico. Record of works sold at art auctions worldwide (payment is required in order to see the selling price).
• Examples of his signature/monogram.
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Pictures from Image Archives:

Fra Angelico in the Art Renewal Center

Fra Angelico in the Artchive

Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: The Annunciation

Artonline

Fra Angelico at CGFA

Insecula

Web Gallery of Art

WebMuseum

Wikimedia Commons Image Database

Artyst, Peintures du Monde (in French)

Artyzm

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)

California State University WorldImages Database

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)

Humanities Web

ImageNETion

Jetset Image Galleries

Olga's Gallery

PBase Photo Sharing
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Other Web Sites:

Adrian Fletcher's Paradoxplace

Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation

The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Adoration of the Children

The Modernist Journals Project NEW!

The Worldwide Art Gallery

Articles:

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Fra Angelico
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists
Biography of the artist. Detailed, but Vasari's anecdotes are sometimes inaccurate.

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Fra Angelico Elicits Astonishing Piety At Met Exhibition

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Christ Glorified in the Court of Heaven

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The, Detail Coronation of the Virgin

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Adoration of an Angel

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Lamentation Over The Dead Christ

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The Baptism of Christ, ca.1438-45

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Annunciation

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