Angelico, Fra, Florentine painterOfficially beatified by the Vatican in 1984 although he had been referred to as 'Beato Angelico' long before then.
Angelco was a Dominican friar who probably commenced his artistic life as a manuscript illustrator in S. Domenico in Fiesole where he was the Prior.
His considerable talents as a painter had considerable influence on Italian painting, his pupils included the famed Beozzo Gozzoli.
Later he was to travel extensively leaving frescoes of outstanding artistic beauty and merit in S. Marco in Florence (now an Angelico Museum), in Orvieto, in Perugia and in the private chapel of Pope Nicholas V in the Vatican in Rome where he died and where his tombstone still exists in the church of S. Maria sopra Minerva.
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