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The Flight into Egypt (Armadio degli Argenti)

From the Armadio degli Argenti. Mary rides with the Child; Joseph walks ahead leading the donkey across the landscape. Museo di San Marco, Florence.

The Flight into Egypt (Armadio degli Argenti) by Fra Angelico depicting Matthew 2:13
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Depicted passages

Matthew 2:13-15Primary
Portrait of Fra Angelico

About Fra Angelico

1395-1455 · Italian

Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro; Beato Angelico) was a Dominican friar of San Domenico (Fiesole) and later San Marco (Florence). His gold-ground panel altarpieces (the Prado and Cortona Annunciations, the Linaioli Tabernacle, the Louvre Coronation) and the small meditative frescoes he painted in the cells of San Marco — begun in 1438 under Prior Antoninus — made him the defining early Renaissance painter of contemplative prayer. He painted the Chapel of Nicholas V in the Vatican Palace between 1447 and 1449. Beatified in 1982.

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