FRA ANGELICO

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• A italian painter of the renaissance
• combined the life a devote friar and an italian painter
• First went by the name of Guido de pietro
• Entered a dominican Convent in 1418 and became a friar in 1425

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• In 1455 Fra Angelico was summoned to rome
• He was called by Pope Eugenius IV
• asked to paint frescoes for the chapel
• The chapel of the Sacrament of the Vatican
• Though now the chapel is destroyed because of Paul III

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• From 1449-1452 Fra Angelico stayed at the convent in Fiesole
• On March 8, 1455 he died in Rome
• He is buried in Rome in the vhurch of Santa Maria sopra Minerva
• He was marked as one if the foremost artists of the Renaissance

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• He was a devote friar and an accomplished painter
• He was called Angelico which is italian for angelic
• And Beato italian for blessed
• His paintings were of calm religious subjects
• Also because of his extraordinary personal piety

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