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Title – Artist (date). Fra Angelico Biographical Sketch.
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Fra Angelico Biographical Sketch • Fra Angelico (1395 - 1455) was born in the Tuscan area of Mugello. He was a Renaissance painter and friar. He joined a religious confraternity at the Carmine Church in 1417, already a painter. He may have trained under the painter Lorenzo Monaco. He painted many frescoes and altarpieces for churches, chapels, and cathedrals. He also worked with gold leaf. He did works for many important and wealthy people, including popes. In 1982, Pope John Paul II beatified him and declared him patron of Catholic artists.