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Fra Angelico: The Crucifixion (detail), ca.1437-46
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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

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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Notable SiteAlte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Notable SiteArt Institute of Chicago   NEW!
Saint Anthony Abbot

Notable SiteFra Angelico at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

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

Notable SiteHermitage 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

Notable SiteJ. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Saints, 1430

Notable SiteKress Foundation Collection   NEW!
(Look for the "Image" links for super high resolution scans)
The Meeting of St. Francis and St. Dominic

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

Notable SiteLouvre Museum Database, Paris

Notable SiteLouvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)   NEW!  

Notable SiteMetropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History  

Notable SiteMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  
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Notable SiteMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Paintings collection online

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

Notable SiteNational Gallery, London, UK   NEW!

Notable SiteNorton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Notable SiteFra Angelico at the Prado Museum, Madrid
The Annunciation, ca.1426

Notable SiteRijksmuseum, Amsterdam   NEW!
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project

Notable SiteRijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)  

Notable SiteThe Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")

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


Notable SiteYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut  
Annunciation

Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK

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

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

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

Galleria Borghese, Rome
Last Judgement

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

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

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

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

Philadelphia Museum of Art
(Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
2 works by Fra Angelico online

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey   NEW!

State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy

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

The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)   NEW!  

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid   NEW!
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National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Art Fund for UK Museums

Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)  

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  

 
Pictures from Image Archives:
Notable SiteFra Angelico in the Art Renewal Center

Notable SiteFra Angelico in the Artchive  

Notable SiteArtcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: The Annunciation

Notable SiteFra Angelico at CGFA  

Notable SiteFra Angelico at The Athenaeum  

Notable SiteWeb Gallery of Art  

Notable SiteWebMuseum  

Notable SiteWikimedia Commons Image Database  

Notable SiteWorld Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

Artyst, Peintures du Monde (in French)  

Artyzm

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)

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  

Jetset Image Galleries

Olga's Gallery

PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)

State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site   NEW!

 
Miscellaneous 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

 
Articles and Reference Sites:
Notable SiteEncyclopedia 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

Notable SiteGrove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)  

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

Notable SiteWikipedia, 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.

Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)   NEW!  

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


"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
Look Inside Books:Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.            
Search Inside Books:Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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Fra Angelico: Dissemblance and Figuration


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Signorelli and Fra Angelico at Orvieto


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Fra Angelico: The San Marco Frescoes


 
 
 
 
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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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