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Fra Angelico
(1400 - 27th Feb, 1455)
La vocation de saint Pierre et saint André
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais / Jean-Gilles Berizzi
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
Saint Peter the Apostle
drapery
Miracle of Christ
Italian Renaissance
Saint Andrew (apostle)
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About the artwork
Title:
La vocation de saint Pierre et saint André
Periods:
15th century
renaissance
XVth century
Techniques:
wash with brown
pen (drawing)
blood wash paper
brown ink
white highlights
brush (drawing)
Dimensions:
14 x 180
Inventory number:
RF430
Location:
musée du Louvre
About the author(s)
Author:
Fra Angelico
Also known as:
Guido di Pietro
Born:
1400
Dead:
27th Feb, 1455
Country:
Italie
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Fra Angelico
(born
Guido di Pietro
; c. 1395 – February 18, 1455) was an Early Italian Renaissance painter described by Vasari in his
Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
as having "a rare and perfect talent". He was known to contemporaries as
Fra Giovanni da Fiesole
(Brother John of Fiesole) and
Fra Giovanni Angelico
(Angelic Brother John). In modern Italian he is called
il Beato Angelico
(Blessed Angelic One); the common English name Fra Angelico means the "Angelic…
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