Fra Angelico 1: A Melting Pot

Fra Angelico at the Palazzo Strozzi 

and Museo di San Marco, Florence 

26 September 2025 - 25 January 2026

This autumn there will be an exhibition the likes of which only Florence can stage – Fra Angelico – dedicated to one of the most significant artists of the Early Renaissance. Across two locations, and with connections to other sites across Italy, this will be the first major display of the artist’s work in over 70 years. It has provided the opportunity to conserve numerous works, and bring more together than ever before. 

First recorded as a Dominican friar, his art manages to combine a profound sense of religiosity with the latest innovations of the Florentine Renaissance. As a young artist, he was influenced by painters and sculptors alike, and the exhibition will chart this dialogue, and the subsequent development of his work. 

Over four talks we will examine the Florence into which Fra Angelico was born, the development of his career as seen in the two sections of the exhibition, and his influence on the generations which followed. The exhibition promises to explore ‘the production, development, and influence of Fra Angelico’s work in dialogue with painters such as Lorenzo Monaco, Masaccio, and Filippo Lippi, as well as sculptors like Lorenzo Ghiberti, Michelozzo, and Luca della Robbia’, and in this first talk we will look at the rich tapestry of styles prevalent in Tuscany in the first quarter of the 15th Century would have helped to form the unique style of the ‘angelic brother’.