• From various accounts of Fra Angelico's life, it is possible to gain some sense of why he was deserving of canonization.
  • As a window, the image facilitates a view of Fra Angelico’s aesthetics of devotion—his compositional choices, the gentleness of the expressions and gestures...
  • He commissioned Fra Angelico to decorate his cells with the Adoration of the Magi and Man of Sorrows and a Crucifixion for his personal devotion.
  • Annunciation by Fra Angelico is one of his third celebrated frescoes, a work that can be seen in the dormitory staircase of the convent of San Marco near Florence.
  • Fra Angelico ismi, kendisine bir Dominiken keşişi tarafından verilmiştir. Dominikan Kilisesi ve Santo Domenico de Fiesole’nin duvarlarına yaptığı fresklerle adını...
  • The appellation "Fra Angelico" became current only in the nineteenth century; it derives from an abbreviation of the epithet "pictor angelicus...
  • Fra Angelico portrayed the exaltation of the Redeemer in many other paintings in the priory’s first cloister and in its cells.
  • Subsequently, Fra Angelico demonstrated an understanding of linear perspective particularly in his Annunciation paintings set inside the sort of arcades that...
  • Steeped in the new spirit of Renaissance Humanism, Angelico and young painters such as Masaccio insisted on painting religious subjects in a rational...