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Fiesole Altarpiece Fra Angelico, 1500
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Fiesole Altarpiece

Fra Angelico · 1500

Why it's great

Mary and the baby Jesus sit between saints in a golden altarpiece, with a long row of small scenes below. Fra Angelico painted it, and Lorenzo di Credi later changed it.

Where to see it

📍 convent of San DomenicoFiesole, Italy

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⬇ Hi-res download 1,700 × 1,274 px · 2.2 megapixels This is the largest scan on Wikimedia Commons, which is fairly small for a big print. The museum that owns it may offer a larger one. File page & license ↗

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About the artist

Fra Angelico

1390–1455 · born in Vicchio · died in Rome

Fra Angelico was an Italian painter born around 1390 who was a Dominican friar. His gentle, glowing paintings of saints and angels in the convent of San Marco in Florence are among the loveliest of the early Renaissance. He died in Rome in 1455.

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