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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
Fra Angelico Was Not His Real Name He is known as Fra Angelico, but the artist had a different name assigned at birth. He was born around 1395 in Tuscany and baptized as Guido di Pietro.
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Museum Raises $6 Million to Keep Rare Renaissance Painting in the U.K.
A rare early masterpiece by the Renaissance painter Fra Angelico has been acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England ...
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Rare Fra Angelico crucifixion scene acquired by Ashmolean for £4.48m after tense fundraising campaign
The small-scale scene, which dates to the 1420s, is the oldest known rendering of a crucifixion by Fra Angelico and “sets ... for £5m last year, but the bar prevented the work leaving the ...