Tag: Angelico

Madonna dell’Umiltà (c.1440)

Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Madonna dell’Umiltà (The Virgin of Humility) c.1440 Tempera on panel, 74 x 52 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam As a Dominican monk, Fra Angelico was not subject to the strict rules of the Florentine painters’ guild. He was thus free…

Madonna col Bambino e quattro angeli (early 1420s)

Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Madonna col Bambino e quattro angeli (Madonna and Child with Four Аngels) early 1420s Tempera on poplar panel, 81 x 51 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg This type of Madonna was widespread in Florence in the late 14th…

Madonna dell’Umiltà (c.1433-1435)

Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Madonna dell’Umiltà (The Virgin of Humility) c.1433–1435 Tempera on panel, 98.6 x 49.2 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, on loan at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) Guido di Piero da Mugello, known as Friar Giovanni…

L’Annunciazione (c.1426)

Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) L’Annunciazione (The Annunciation) c.1426 Tempera on panel, 162.3 x 191.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This altarpiece was painted for the monastery of Santo Domenico in Fiesole, near Florence. The central panel shows the Archangel Gabriel’s Annunciation to…

Incoronazione della Vergine (1420s)

Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Incoronazione della Vergine (Coronation of the Virgin) 1420s Tempera and gold on wood panel, 27 x 37.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Since its acquisition in 1944 the authorship of this painting has been updated from the…

San Girolamo penitente (1419-1420)

Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) San Girolamo penitente (The Penitent Saint Jerome) 1419–1420 Tempera on wood panel, 56.5 x 41.2 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Although some scholars attribute this painting to the Florentine artists Masolino, Masaccio, and Giovanni Toscani, most favor the…

Sant’Antonio Abate (1440-1441)

Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Sant’Antonio Abate (Saint Anthony Abbot) 1440–1441 Tempera on panel, 39.4 x 14 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Trained initially as an illuminator, Fra Angelico became a Dominican friar early in his successful career as a painter. This panel…

Testa d’angelo (c.1445-1450)

Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Testa d’angelo (Head of an Angel) c.1445–1450 Tempera and oil on panel, 17.1 x 14 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford This small panel is a portion of an altarpiece depicting the Virgin and Christ Child, now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.…

Madonna dell’Umiltà (c.1430)

Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Madonna dell’Umiltà (The Madonna of Humility) c.1430 Tempera on panel, 60.7 x 45.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman sits in the center of this vertical panel painting and gazes down at a baby lying across…

Tebaide (c.1417-1423)

Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Tebaide (Thebaid) c.1417–1423 Tempera on poplar, 73.7 × 105.5 × 2 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest