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The Nativity (Cell 5)

Cell 5. Mary and Joseph kneel in adoration before the Child in the manger. Convent of San Marco, Florence.

The Nativity (Cell 5)
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Depicted passages

Luke 2:7Primary
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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