Talk:Fra Angelico
From Academic Kids
is this artist "Beato Angelico"?
- yes, but everyone who talks about his art other than tour guides in Florence refers to him as Fra Angelico. Of course, he had a name.
- All the authors I have read in my life, with no exception, call him Beato, and presumedly they had no time for that (still respectable) job. Of course, it was mentioned he was a friar. :-)
- His name was Giovanni (correctly Fra Giovanni da Fiesole), and Beato Angelico is "simply" the nickname (due to some carachteristics of his works - sense of beatitude, angels) by which he is known.
fra angelico is cool
- Better: other friars too call him this way [1] (http://www.beatoangelico.org/)
