The Art Newspaper: Fra Angelico’s earliest surviving altarpiece returns to Fiesole after restoration reveals hidden throne
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Fra Angelico
Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, known posthumously as Fra Angelico, was an Italian Dominican friar and painter active during the early Florentine Renaissance.
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culture · Italian friar and painter (c. 1395 – 1455) · painter · illuminator · architectural drafter · miniature painter · fresco painter · also Fra Angelico, Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, Fra Giovanni Angelico, Beato Angelico, Giovanni da Fiesole, Fra Beato Angelico
Born 1 January 1400 · Died 18 February 1455 · Q5664
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2026· 3 entries
Artnet: Fra Angelico’s First Major Altarpiece Gets a Groundbreaking Repair
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Hyperallergic: Fra Angelico Etched the Divine in Stone
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2025· 3 entries
Smithsonian Magazine: A Rare Renaissance Fresco That Could Be One of Fra Angelico’s Earliest Works Has Been Restored to Its Former Glory
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“From September 26, 2025, to January 25, 2026, the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Museo di San Marco present Fra Angelico....”
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The altarpiece was temporarily displayed alongside 17 of the 18 total known predellas and panels at Palazzo Strozzi as part of the Beato Angelico exhibition
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2024· 1 entry
National Catholic Register: Fra Angelico’s Paintings Were His Miracles
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2023· 1 entry
National Catholic Register: Fra Angelico’s Rare Painting of the Crucifixion Fetches Record Price at Christie’s Auction House
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2018· 1 entry
Gerardo de Simone, Il Beato Angelico a Roma
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2006· 1 entry
The collection in her estate was auctioned off by Duke's, an auction house in Dorset
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1984· 1 entry
John Paul declared him the patron of Catholic artists
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1965· 1 entry
For around $200–400, where they were described as "panel paintings of Dominican Saints, 15th Century, Italian"
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1455· 1 entry
Died 1455-02-18.
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1400· 1 entry
Born 1400-01-01.
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