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Who may have trained Fra Angelico in the Gothic painting tradition?
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Fra Angelico
Madonna of Humility, tempera on panel by Fra Angelico, c. 1440; in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
According to the painter and biographer Giorgio Vasari, Fra Angelico may have been trained by Lorenzo Monaco, who is described as the greatest painter and miniaturist of the Gothic tradition.1
The influence of this training is often identified in the painstaking delicacy of execution and the vibrant luminosity found in Fra Angelico's work, qualities that are notably apparent in early pieces such as the Madonna of the Star and The Annunciation.1