Angelico, Fra (Guido di Pietro)
(c. 1400-55)

A Dominican Friar, long called 'Beato Angelico' and officially beatified by the Vatican in 1984, and Florentine painter who had considerable influence on Italian painting whose pupols included the famed Beozzo Gozzoli.
Angelico probably commenced his artistic life as a manuscript illustrator in S. Domenico in Fiesole where he was the Prior, but later was to travel extensively leaving frescoes of outstanding artistic beauty and merit in S. Marco in Florence (now an Angelico Museum), in Orvieto, in Perugia and in the private chapel of Pope Nicholas V in the Vatican in Rome where he died and where his tomstone still exists in the church of S. Maria sopra Minerva.