Coronation Of The Virgin (Fra Angelico, Uffizi)
The ''Coronation of the Virgin'' is a painting of the Coronation of the Virgin by the Italian early Renaissance painter Fra Angelico, executed around 1432. It is now in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence. The artist executed another ''Coronation of the Virgin (Fra Angelico, Louvre), Coronation of the Virgin'' (c. 1434–1435), now in the Louvre in Paris. History The work is mentioned as by Fra Angelico in a manuscript of the Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze,Cod. Magliabe., XVII, 17 and Giorgio Vasari writes that it was located in the church of Sant'Egidio at Florence. Two panels of the predella which once was part of the work are known; they portray the ''Marriage'' and the ''Funeral of the Virgin'', and are currently exhibited in the museum of San Marco, Florence. The altarpiece arrived at the Uffizi in 1825. The current frame dates to this period. Description The painting is on a gold ground (gilding, gilded background), a feature of medieval painting, over which is a small paradi ...
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Fra Angelico
Fra Angelico (born Guido di Pietro; February 18, 1455) was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance, described by Vasari in his '' Lives of the Artists'' as having "a rare and perfect talent".Giorgio Vasari, ''Lives of the Artists''. Penguin Classics, 1965. He earned his reputation primarily for the series of frescoes he made for his own friary, San Marco, in Florence. He was known to contemporaries as Fra Giovanni da Fiesole (Brother John of Fiesole) and Fra Giovanni Angelico (Angelic Brother John). In modern Italian he is called ''Beato Angelico'' (Blessed Angelic One); the common English name Fra Angelico means the "Angelic friar". In 1982, Pope John Paul II proclaimed him "blessed" in recognition of the holiness of his life, thereby making the title of "Blessed" official. Fiesole is sometimes misinterpreted as being part of his formal name, but it was merely the name of the town where he took his vows as a Dominican friar, and was used by contemporaries to distingu ...
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