The artist Fra Angelico painted "The Coronation of the Virgin" about one hundred and thirty years later.

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To help express the wonder of this moment, Fra Angelico filled the work with light and gold.

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Fra Angelico's figures, by contrast, have a sculptural dignity, moving in light-filled space.

ECONOMIST: A rare chance to see the works of a 15th-century master

Fra Angelico was first described as a Dominican friar in about 1423 and beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1982.

ECONOMIST: A rare chance to see the works of a 15th-century master

Fra Angelico's best-known work is his series of frescoes at San Marco in Florence, the Dominican convent from which he ventured forth under the aegis of his patron and friend, Cosimo de' Medici.

ECONOMIST: A rare chance to see the works of a 15th-century master