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

Paintings for the Armadio degli Argenti

1451-52
Tempera on wood, 118 x 75 cm
Museo di San Marco, Florence

The paintings shown in this detail:

Last Supper

Payment of Judas

Prayer in the Garden

Betrayel of Judas

Mocking of Christ

Christ at the Column

Latin texts from the Old and New testaments are inscribed on scrolls unfurled above and below the episodes. They were added later, not by Angelico, when all of the scenes were complete.