Fra Angelico Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago
Saint Anthony Abbot
Fra Angelico at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
3 works online
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
Kress Foundation Collection
(Look for the "Image" links for super high resolution scans)
The Meeting of St. Francis and St. Dominic
Fra Angelico at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Coronation of the Virgin, ca.1430-32
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Fra Angelico at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
National Gallery, London, UK
Fra Angelico at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
4 works by Fra Angelico
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Fra Angelico at the Prado Museum, Madrid
The Annunciation, ca.1426
Fra Angelico at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
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)
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
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2 works by Fra Angelico online
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, Vermont
Angels
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)
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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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)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Fra Angelico in the Art Renewal Center
Fra Angelico in the Artchive
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: The Annunciation
CGFA
Google Art Project NEW!
The Last Judgement (Winged Altar) (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)
Google Art Project NEW!
Coronation of the Virgin (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)
The Athenaeum 
Web Gallery of Art
WebMuseum
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Artliste
Image archive with zoomable images
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Free Christ Images
Humanities Web
Jetset Image Galleries
Olga's Gallery
PBase Photo Sharing
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State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
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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
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
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 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
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.
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
The New York Observer
"Fra Angelico Elicits Astonishing Piety At Met Exhibition", article by Hilton Kramer
The New Yorker
"Fra Angelico retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art", 2005 review by Peter Schjeldahl
"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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