Fra Angelico’s earliest surviving altarpiece returns to Fiesole after restoration reveals hidden throne

Fra Angelico’s Earliest Altarpiece Returns to Fiesole after Repair and Cleaning

Fra Angelico’s Fiesole Altarpiece, made between 1420 and 1423, has been returned to its original setting at the convent of San Domenico following a lengthy restoration. The two-year process, funded by the cultural-preservation nonprofit Friends of Florence, rehabilitated the work from a prior sixteenth century restoration, and repaired the altarpiece’s painting as well as wooden support. The work […]

Fra Angelico’s Restored Fiesole Altarpiece Returns to Its Original Church Home After Blockbuster Museum Show

A major work by a lauded Renaissance artist, newly restored, has again taken up residence in the very church for which it was originally painted. Fra Angelico’s Fiesole Altarpiece (ca. 1420–1423) has been restored to the Church of San Domenico, just north of Florence, where the artist once was a Dominican friar. Born Guido di Pietro in Tuscany around 1395, Fra Angelico was dubbed Fra Giovanni di Fiesole when he entered an order of Dominican fr…

Fra Angelico’s earliest surviving altarpiece returns to Fiesole after restoration reveals hidden throne

The work, created by the young friar-artist and updated later by Lorenzo di Credi, has undergone careful repair and cleaning

Fra Angelico’s First Major Altarpiece Restored After Five Centuries Of Disrepair

The Fiesole Altarpiece, painted in the 1420s, suffered its first damage during an updating in 1501; it was subsequently broken up, had some of its parts looted or sold off, and was gnawed by wood-boring insects. The work has now been restored to roughly its 1501 condition with an ingenious spring-fitted wood frame. – Artnet