ANGELICO, Fra (b. ca. 1400, Vicchio nell Mugello, d. 1455, Roma) |
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Christ the Judge1447Fresco Chapel of San Brizio, Duomo, Orvieto | |
In the summer of 1447 Fra Angelico, assisted by Benozzo Gozzoli and several other minor artists, had painted a fresco of the Prophets in one of the triangular ceiling vanes and Christ the Judge in another in the Chapel of San Brizio, a large Gothic construction built arounf d 1408 in the Orvieto Cathedral. The remaining sections of the ceiling were painted by Luca Signorelli in 1499-1502. |