ANGELICO, Fra
(b. ca. 1400, Vicchio nell Mugello, d. 1455, Roma)

View of the chapel vaulting

1447-49
Fresco
Cappella Niccolina, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican

Following convention, the four evangelists appear in the ceiling's cross-ribbed vaulting against a starry sky. Drawings survive for the St Mark and St Matthew (Musée Condé, Chantilly, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge), considered to be works by Benozzo Gozzoli.