Fra Angelico

The first American retrospective devoted to the work of the great Italian Renaissance artist known as Fra Angelico (1390/5–1455)—and the first comprehensive presentation of his work assembled anywhere in the world in half a century—will open at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 26. More than fifty public institutions and private collections in Europe and America will participate in the landmark exhibition, which commemorates the 550th anniversary of the artist's death. "Fra Angelico" will feature some seventy-five paintings, drawings, and manuscript illuminations from throughout his career, supplemented by forty-five additional works by his assistants and closest followers. Highlights of the exhibition include recently discovered paintings and new attributions, paintings never before displayed publicly, and reconstructed groupings of works, some of them reunited for the first time.

The exhibition is made possible by the Homeland Foundation, Inc.

The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

"The subtlety and technical sophistication of Fra Angelico's mind and hand are among the characteristics that set him apart from other artists of the Italian Renaissance," commented Philippe de Montebello, director of the Metropolitan Museum. "The exhibition ‘Fra Angelico' illustrates the artist's endlessly fertile imagination and incomparable craftsmanship, as well as the reach and continuity of his influence into the second half of the fifteenth century."

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Fra Angelico
Ort: Robert Lehman Wing