Fiesole, Fra

GIOVANNI DA, commonly called Fra Ange lico, B. at Mugello, 1387. His family-name was Guido; his surname of Fiesole he acquired from the order of predicants at that place, whom he joined in 1409. He died in 1455.- Fra Angelico was distinguished for his pious life, and the same sentiment pervaded all his works; he was remarkably methodic in his habits, he commenced every picture with prayer, and invariably carried out the first impre ion, looking upon it as a species of inspiration. His principal works are some frescoes in the convent of San Marco at Florence, and others in the chapel of San Lorenzo in the Vatican. His chief merit is a refined sentiment and high order of expre ion, in which qualities Fra Giovanni was, as it were, the type of his succe ors, the model of the quattrocento school of painters.