Fra Angelico

FRA ANGELICO

By James Mason

A short introduction to the art of Fra Angelico, covering every period in the painter's career. Fully illustrated.

Fra Angelico, known by several names, including Fra Giovanni Beato Angelico da Fiesole (1399?-1455), is one of the very few painters of the Italian Renaissance who painted religious pictures exclusively. Almost all Angelico's paintings are religious - he did not paint secular portraits, like, say, Giovanni Bellini or Ghirlandaio. It was Vasari who stre...