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Fra Angelico

1400 - 1455

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Fra Giovanni da Fiesole (Vicchio, c. 1395 – Rome, 18 February 1455), known as Fra Angelico ( FRAH an-JEL-ik-oh, Italian: [ˈfra anˈdʒɛːliko] was a Dominican friar and one of the greatest painters of the early Florentine Renaissance during the 15th century. He earned his reputation for the series of frescoes he made for his own friary, San Marco in Florence, by commission of Cossimo de Medici 'The Elder', founder of the Medici dinasty. His masterpieces are the San Marco Altarpiece and the Deposition of Christ, both for the convent of San Marco. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2024). Fra Angelico is the 50th most popular painter (up from 53rd in 2024), the 189th most popular biography from Italy (down from 161st in 2019) and the 14th most popular Italian Painter.

Fra Angelico is most famous for his paintings of religious scenes.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Fra Angelico ranks 50 out of 2,023. Before him are Nicolas Poussin, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Caspar David Friedrich, Anthony van Dyck, and Andrea del Verrocchio. After him are Paul Klee, René Magritte, Artemisia Gentileschi, Georges Braque, Camille Pissarro, and Jean-Antoine Watteau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1400, Fra Angelico ranks 1. After him are Gennadius Scholarius, Andronikos V Palaiologos, Gilles Binchois, Bartolomeo Colleoni, Gjon Kastrioti, Hüma Hatun, Konrad Witz, Filarete, Ruy González de Clavijo, John, Constable of Portugal, and Andronikos Palaiologos. Among people deceased in 1455, Fra Angelico ranks 2. Before him is Pope Nicholas V. After him are Lorenzo Ghiberti, Pisanello, Isabel of Coimbra, Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, Zbigniew Oleśnicki, and Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Fra Angelico ranks 189 out of 5,161. Before him are Antonio Salieri (1750), Pope Urban III (1200), Gaetano Donizetti (1797), Marcello Mastroianni (1924), Andrea del Verrocchio (1435), and Andrea Palladio (1508). After him are Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632), Marcus Licinius Crassus (-115), Pope Siricius (334), Pope Benedict XI (1240), Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (1869), and John Bosco (1815).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Fra Angelico ranks 14. Before him are Amedeo Modigliani (1884), Masaccio (1401), Tintoretto (1518), Paolo Veronese (1528), Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526), and Andrea del Verrocchio (1435). After him are Artemisia Gentileschi (1593), Giorgione (1478), Giovanni Bellini (1430), Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448), Piero della Francesca (1415), and Andrea Mantegna (1431).

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