Fra Angelico, c 1395–February 18, 1455, was an Italian painter and Dominican friar of the Early Renaissance. Born Guido di Pietro in the Mugello region near Florence, he is first documented as a painter in 1417 and later took the name Fra Giovanni after entering the Dominican convent of San Domenico at Fiesole.

His early training is not securely documented, though he probably worked as a manuscript illuminator. He collaborated with his brother Benedetto and employed assistants including Benozzo Gozzoli; Zanobi Strozzi was among the painters closely associated with his workshop. Fra Angelico worked principally in Fiesole, Florence, Orvieto, and Rome, producing altarpieces and fresco cycles for Dominican institutions and for Popes Eugene IV and Nicholas V.

Major groups of his work remain at the Museo Nazionale di San Marco in Florence and in the Niccoline Chapel in Vatican City. Other principal collections include the Uffizi Galleries, Museo Nacional del Prado, Musée du Louvre, National Gallery in London, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and Detroit Institute of Arts.

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