Vasari's Fra Angelico

It’s rare to find a person who believes so strongly in saints and follows Him everywhere. That is not the case for Fra Giovanni. Giovanni was a good man, who worked hard and had certain religious guidelines for his work. He was born near Fiesole in the 14th century and was baptized. An important detail stated in Vasari’s book, “He shunned all the things of the world; living a pure and saintly life, he befriended the poor just as his soul is, I believe, now befriended by Heaven. He applied himself continuously to his painting and never wanted to work on anything but holy subjects. He could have been rich but cared little about wealth; on the contrary, he used to say that true wealth was nothing but being content with little.” (Page 176)

Fra Angelico painted many frescos and was able to express his deep love for God. Fra Angelico to created a large Crucifixion scene with all different sorts of saints for the Chapter House. Nonetheless, Fra Angelico showed an understanding of linear perspective in his Annunciation paintings.  

"Annunciation" by Fra Angelico 

This fresco is in a corridor of the San Marco convent in Florence. Which led Fra Angelico to spending most of his life in the San Marco convent. This fresco shows Mary and the angel greeting one another and in the background Fra Angelico painted a Tuscan cypresses.