The vault, Cappella Niccolina, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican

The vault, Cappella Niccolina, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican. Fresco by Fra Angelico (c1400-55) Italian painter. In 1447, or perhaps earlier, Fra Angelico was in Rome, where he painted the private chapel of Pope Nicholas V with scenes from the lives of St Lawrence and St Stephen. In the vaults of the chapel, the Evangelists are suspended on clouds, amid the starry blue heavens. Their luminous faces and pale garments seem suffused with incandescent light as they compose the Gospels of Christ's life. The rectangular chapel is divided by ribbing into four vanes, one for each of the four Evangelists

1447 Amid Angelico C1400-55 Cappella Compose Divided Earlier Evangelists Garments Gospels Heavens Incandescent Luminous Niccolina Palazzi Pale Perhaps Pontifici Rectangular Ribbing Seem Starry Suspended Tempera Vanes Vatican Vault Vaults

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