Fra Angelico executed three altarpieces for the church and convent of San Domenico in Florence. They not only demonstrate his mastery in the 1420s but are suffused with Dominican ideals, most notably the veneration of Christ and Mary.

The San Domenico Altarpiece was the first painting that Angelico painted for the church, it was followed by the Annunciation and the Coronation of the Virgin. The Altarpiece represents the Virgin and Child surrounded by angels and flanked by four saints: Thomas Aquinas, the Order's greatest scholar; Barnabus, patron saint of Barnaba degli Agli, benefactor of the convent, to whom the church was jointly dedicated; Dominic, founder of the Order; and Peter Martyr, the Order's first martyr and most eloquent preacher. originally conceived as a triptych, it was united into a single panel and its background repainted by the artist Lorenzo di Credi in 1501, when the church was modernized.

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	San Domenico Altarpiece 1423-24 Tempera and gold on panel, 212 x 237 cm San Domenico, Fiesole
	San Domenico Altarpiece (detail) 1423-24 Tempera and gold on panel San Domenico, Fiesole
	San Domenico Altarpiece (detail) 1423-24 Tempera and gold on panel San Domenico, Fiesole
	San Domenico Altarpiece (detail) 1423-24 Tempera on wood, 212 x 237 cm (entire triptych) San Domenico, Fiesole
	San Domenico Altarpiece (detail) 1423-24 Tempera on wood San Domenico, Fiesole
	Predella of the San Domenico Altarpiece 1423-24 Tempera and gold on panel, 32 x 244 cm National Gallery, London
	Predella of the San Domenico Altarpiece (detail) 1423-24 Tempera and gold on panel, 32 x 63,5 cm National Gallery, London
	St Nicholas of Bari 1423-24 Tempera on wood Private collection
	St Michael 1423-24 Tempera on wood Private collection
	St Mark 1423-24 Tempera on wood Musée Condé, Chantilly
	St Matthew 1423-24 Tempera on wood Musée Condé, Chantilly
	A Bishop Saint c. 1425 Tempera and gold on panel, diameter 15 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York