Fra Angelico

Posthumous portrait of Fra Angelico by Luca Signorelli, detail of Deeds of the Antichrist fresco (c.1501) in Orvieto Cathedral

Fra Giovanni da Fiesole (born Guido di Pietro; c. 1395 — 18 February 1455), known posthumously as Fra Angelico (/ˌfrɑː ænˈdʒɛlɪkoʊ/ FRAH an-JEL-ik-oh, Italian: [ˈfra anˈdʒɛːliko]), was a Dominican friar and painter active during the early Florentine Renaissance.

Quotes about Fra Angelico

• Scholars have long noted that Angelico’s vision of Hell did not emerge from a vacuum. …His Hell is not the feverish grotesquerie of later Northern painters, nor the architectural labyrinth of Dante’s nine circles. Instead, it is a carefully staged moral drama, Dominican in its clarity, theological in its logic, and yet unmistakably shaped by the imaginative vocabulary of both Dante and Buffalmacco.
  • Massimo Introvigne, "Fra Angelico’s Demonology: The Sweet Painter’s Inferno", Bitter Winter (January 17, 2026)

External links

• Media related to Fra Angelico on Wikimedia Commons
• Encyclopedic article on Fra Angelico on Wikipedia