Saint Anthony Abbot1440–41
Fra Angelico became a Dominican friar early in his painting career. More about this work
About this work
Fra Angelico became a Dominican friar early in his painting career. This panel was almost certainly once part of the major altarpiece he painted around 1440 for the church of the Dominican convent of San Marco, in Florence, that featured a central panel of the Virgin and Child with saints and ten additional panels depicting saints atop clouds. This panel of Saint Anthony Abbot, considered the founder of monasticism, would have been among them.
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What you’re looking at
A work made of tempera on panel.
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How it was made
- Tempera
- Pigment bound with egg yolk. It dries in minutes and can’t be blended wet, so painters built up form with fine, hatched strokes. It was Europe’s main panel technique before oil.
Fra Angelico
Guido di Pietro; Italian, c. 1395/1400–1455
Renaissance
European art from about 1400 to 1600, when painters rediscovered perspective and the classical past.
Rights and the museum’s record
Public domain. The Art Institute of Chicago has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- 2001.329
- Credit
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Type
- Painting
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
- See it on the museum’s site
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