The life of Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, baptized as Guido di Piero (born around 1395 in Vicchio di Mugello, died in Rome in 1455) is the stuff of legend. "Angelic" was how he came to be known soon after his death; the name "Beato" was a comment on his painting and not a reference to his beatification, which happened only recently, in 1984.
1424-1430. Adapted by Lorenzo di Credi in 1501. Tempera on panel. 212 x 217 cm. San Domenico, Fiesole, Italy.
c.1425. Tempera on panel. 80 x 51 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1428/29. Tempera on panel. 137 x 168 cm. Museo di San Marco, Florence, Italy.
1428-30. Tempera on panel. 170 x 79 cm (each panel). Museo di San Marco, Florence, Italy.
c.1429. Tempera on panel. 37 x 28 cm. Städelsches Kunstinstitut mit Städtischer Galeria, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
c. 1430-1432. Tempera on panel. 194 x 194. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. Read Note.
c. 1431. Tempera on wood. 105 x 210 cm. Museo di San Marco, Florence, Italy. Read Note.
c.1431. Tempera on wood. 105 x 210 cm. Museo di San Marco, Florence, Italy.
c. 1431. Tempera on wood. 105 x 210 cm. Museo di San Marco, Florence, Italy.
c.1431. Tempera on wood. 105 x 210 cm. Museo di San Marco, Florence, Italy.
c.1432-1434. Tempera on panel. 175 x 180. Museo Diocesano, Cortona, Italy. Read Note.
c.1432-1434. Tempera on panel. 175 x 180. Museo Diocesano, Cortona, Italy. Read Note.
c. 1432-1434. Tempera on panel. 175 x 180. Museo Diocesano, Cortona, Italy. Read Note.
c.1432-1434. Tempera on panel. 175 x 180. Museo Diocesano, Cortona, Italy. Read Note.
c. 1432-1434. Tempera on panel. 175 x 180. Museo Diocesano, Cortona, Italy. Read Note.
c. 1432-1434. Tempera on panel. 175 x 180. Museo Diocesano, Cortona, Italy. Read Note.
1433. Tempera on panel. 292 x 176 cm. Museo di San Marco, Florence, Italy. Read Note.
1433. Tempera on panel. 233 x 133 cm. Museo di San Marco, Florence, Italy.
1433. Tempera on panel. 39 x 56 cm. Museo di San Marco, Florence, Italy. Read Note.
1433. Tempera on panel. 39 x 56 cm. Museo di San Marco, Florence, Italy. Read Note.
Monumental Painting of Italian Renaissance. by I. Smirnova. Moscow. 1987. (in Russian)
The Art of the Italian Renaissance. Architecture. Sculpture. Painting. Drawing. Könemann. 1995.
Painting of Europe. XIII-XX centuries. Encyclopedic Dictionary. Moscow. Iskusstvo. 1999. (in Russian)
Fra Angelico at San Marco by William Hood. Yale University Press, 1993.
Fra Angelico: The San Marco Frescoes by Paolo Morachiello, Eleanor Daunt, Angelico, Museo Di San Marco. Thames & Hudson, 1996.
Fra Angelico: Dissemblance and Figuration by Georges Didi-Huberman, Jane Marie Todd. Press, 1995.
Fra Angelico by John T. Spike. Abbeville Press, 1995.