Where can you see Fra Angelico in Rome?

At the Vatican Museums: The Niccoline Chapel and Scenes from the life of St Nicholas of Bari. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

What is Fra Angelico's most famous work in Rome?

The Niccoline Chapel, of 1447 to 1449, at the Vatican Museums. The small private chapel of Pope Nicholas V, covered with the lives of St Stephen and St Lawrence in clear blues and pinks. It opens off the Raphael Rooms and is easy to miss.

When and where was Fra Angelico born?

About 1395, at Vicchio, Tuscany, Italy. Fra Angelico died on 18 February 1455, at Rome, Italy, aged about 60.

What is Fra Angelico known for?

Painted the frescoes of the convent of San Marco in Florence. Frescoed the private chapel of Pope Nicholas V. Buried in Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome. Fra Angelico was an Italian painter, of the Early Renaissance.

Painter, 1395 to 1455

Fra Angelico

Fra Angelico was a friar before he was a painter, and his pictures have a stillness no one else matched. He died in Rome and is buried there.

Born: 1395, Vicchio, Tuscany, Italy
Died: 1455, Rome, Italy
Movement: Early Renaissance
In Rome: 2 works in 1 museum

Where to see Fra Angelico in Rome

Each work with the museum it hangs in. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

Vatican Museums2 works

The Niccoline Chapel
1447 to 1449
The small private chapel of Pope Nicholas V, covered with the lives of St Stephen and St Lawrence in clear blues and pinks. It opens off the Raphael Rooms and is easy to miss.
Scenes from the life of St Nicholas of Bari
about 1437
Two small panels from the base of an altarpiece painted for Perugia, in the Pinacoteca.

The life of Fra Angelico

Guido di Pietro was born in Tuscany around 1395 and entered the Dominican order, where he was Fra Giovanni. The name Angelico came after his death. In Florence he painted the convent of San Marco, cell by cell, in the 1440s.

Pope Eugene IV called him to Rome in 1445, and he worked for the next pope, Nicholas V, as well. He died in the Dominican house of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in 1455. His tomb is in that church, behind the Pantheon.

What to know

Painted the frescoes of the convent of San Marco in Florence
Frescoed the private chapel of Pope Nicholas V
Buried in Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome

Born: About 1395, Vicchio, Tuscany, Italy
Died: 18 February 1455, Rome, Italy

Fra Angelico: common questions

Where can you see Fra Angelico in Rome?: At the Vatican Museums: The Niccoline Chapel and Scenes from the life of St Nicholas of Bari. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.
What is Fra Angelico's most famous work in Rome?: The Niccoline Chapel, of 1447 to 1449, at the Vatican Museums. The small private chapel of Pope Nicholas V, covered with the lives of St Stephen and St Lawrence in clear blues and pinks. It opens off the Raphael Rooms and is easy to miss.
When and where was Fra Angelico born?: About 1395, at Vicchio, Tuscany, Italy. Fra Angelico died on 18 February 1455, at Rome, Italy, aged about 60.
What is Fra Angelico known for?: Painted the frescoes of the convent of San Marco in Florence. Frescoed the private chapel of Pope Nicholas V. Buried in Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome. Fra Angelico was an Italian painter, of the Early Renaissance.