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1) Fra Angelico
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Secluded within cloister walls, a painter and a monk, and brother of the order of the Dominicans, Angelico devoted his life to religious paintings. Little is known of his early life except that he was born at Vicchio, in the broad fertile valley of the Mugello, not far from Florence, that his name was Guido de Pietro, and that he passed his youth in Florence, probably in some bottegha, for at twenty he was recognized as a painter. In 1418, he entered...
2) Fra Angelico
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Fra Angelico (Fra Giovanni da Fiesole) (Vicchio di Mugello, 1387 – Rome, 1455)Isolé du monde par les murs d'un cloître, ce moine peintre, appartenant à l'ordre des dominicains, voua son existence à la peinture religieuse. On sait très peu de choses sur le début de sa vie, mis à part qu'il était né à Vicchio, dans la vaste et fertile vallée du Mugello, non loin de Florence, que son nom était Guido di Pietro, et qu'il passa sa jeunesse...
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