Angelico
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Walk through the Convent of San Marco in Florence, and you’ll see Crucifixion after Crucifixion in frescos by the 15th-century painter Fra Angelico.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
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
That painting was one of four that Fra Angelico created from 1424 to 1434, for the sacristy of Santa Maria Novella, the Dominican mother church in Florence.
From New York Times ● May 16, 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
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