Angelico

American  

[an-jel-i-koh, ahn-je-lee-kaw] / ænˈdʒɛl ɪˌkoʊ, ɑnˈdʒɛ li kɔ /

noun

1. Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, 1387–1455, Italian painter.

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Angelico British  

/ anˈdʒɛːliko /

noun

1. Fra (fra), original name Guido di Pietro; monastic name Fra Giovanni da Fiesole. ?1400–55, Italian fresco painter and Dominican friar

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Other Word Forms

• Angelican
  adjective

Example Sentences

The effect is not meant to be funny, but Fra Angelico infuses lively, humorous elements throughout.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025

European paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Fra Angelico, Piero della Francesca, Tintoretto, Rembrandt, Nicolas Poussin and other artists in the Western canon echo in his work, submerged within Modernist forms.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2022

The medium made famous by Michelangelo, da Vinci and Fra Angelico, frescoing is a delicate process that entails crushing pigments and painting them into wet plaster before it dries.

From Washington Post • May 6, 2021

This exhibition is something of a reunion: In the early 1400s, the Renaissance artist Fra Angelico did four reliquaries depicting events in the life of the Virgin Mary.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2018

My mother asked him to talk to her and he returned from the guest house with his Fra Angelico eyebrows lifted in tender exasperation.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides