Artist · 6 prints
Fra Angelico Prints
About Fra Angelico
Fra Angelico, born Guido di Pietro around 1395 in Vicchio, near Florence, was an Italian painter and Dominican friar. Around 1417 he became a novice at the friary of San Domenico in Fiesole, just outside Florence, where he lived for much of his life and later became prior. He worked in Florence and Rome and died in Rome on 18 February 1455. Pope John Paul II beatified him in 1982.
Fra Angelico combined the new tools of Renaissance art, such as solid figures and linear perspective, with a calm, prayerful mood and clear, luminous colour. He is best known for the frescoes he painted after 1436 in the Dominican friary of San Marco in Florence, which Cosimo de' Medici helped rebuild, including an Annunciation at the top of the dormitory stairs. From 1447 to 1449 he painted scenes from the lives of Saints Stephen and Lawrence in the private chapel of Pope Nicholas V in the Vatican.
Fra Angelico prints: reproductions of religious paintings by the Florentine early Renaissance painter Fra Angelico, made between about 1420 and 1450. The collection includes The Madonna of Humility (1430), Madonna and Child Enthroned and Twelve Angels (1420), The Nativity (1425), The Healing of Palladia by Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian (1438), and the paired Annunciatory Angel and Virgin Annunciate (1450).
This selection focuses on devotional subjects: the Madonna and Child, the Annunciation, the Nativity and a scene from the lives of two healing saints. The panels use gold grounds, clear blues, rose pinks and calm, still figures. The Annunciatory Angel and Virgin Annunciate were made as a pair and can be hung side by side.
The calm, bright colours suit bedrooms, nurseries, reading corners and quiet hallways; The Nativity is a natural choice for the Christmas season. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with low-glare acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
