Fra Angelico

thumb|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 Buonamico Buffalmacco Buffalmacco. Massimo Introvigne, "Fra Angelico’s Demonology: The Sweet Painter’s Inferno", Bitter Winter (January 17, 2026) External links Category:1390s births Category:1455 deaths Category:Painters from Italy Category:Clergy from Italy Category:Christian monks Category:Catholics from Italy Category:People from Tuscany