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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • Italian Dominican friar and painter of the Florentine school.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An umbelliferous plant of North America, Ligusticum actæifolium, resembling the lovage. Also called nondo.

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Examples

  • The two small works by Fra Angelico will be auctioned next year and are expected to sell for more than one million pounds.

    November 2006 2006

  • 'Angelico's picture of heaven was more to my mind than any I have seen.

    Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag Louisa May Alcott 1860

  • Among the visual highlights is an altarpiece by Fra Angelico that depicts St. Nicholas rescuing a sailing vessel.

    David Galenson: Art and Money in Renaissance Florence David Galenson 2011

  • Among the visual highlights is an altarpiece by Fra Angelico that depicts St. Nicholas rescuing a sailing vessel.

    David Galenson: Art and Money in Renaissance Florence David Galenson 2011

  • Among the visual highlights is an altarpiece by Fra Angelico that depicts St. Nicholas rescuing a sailing vessel.

    David Galenson: Art and Money in Renaissance Florence David Galenson 2011

  • In 1459, the son of the Duke of Milan was amazed by what he saw at the Palazzo Medici -- "the decorative tapestries, the chests of inestimable craftsmanship and value, the masterful sculptures, the infinitely varied patterns and silverwork" -- and he neglected to mention the greatest treasures of all, paintings by such masters as Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi.

    David Galenson: Art and Money in Renaissance Florence David Galenson 2011

  • Fra Angelico, St. Nicholas with the Emperor's Envoy and the Miraculous Rescue of a Sailing Vessel, between 1437 and 1449, tempera and gold on panel, 34 x 63.5 cm, Vatican City, Musei Vaticani, inv.

    David Galenson: Art and Money in Renaissance Florence David Galenson 2011

  • Fra Angelico, St. Nicholas with the Emperor's Envoy and the Miraculous Rescue of a Sailing Vessel, between 1437 and 1449, tempera and gold on panel, 34 x 63.5 cm, Vatican City, Musei Vaticani, inv.

    David Galenson: Art and Money in Renaissance Florence David Galenson 2011

  • Fra Angelico, St. Nicholas with the Emperor's Envoy and the Miraculous Rescue of a Sailing Vessel, between 1437 and 1449, tempera and gold on panel, 34 x 63.5 cm, Vatican City, Musei Vaticani, inv.

    David Galenson: Art and Money in Renaissance Florence David Galenson 2011

  • In 1459, the son of the Duke of Milan was amazed by what he saw at the Palazzo Medici -- "the decorative tapestries, the chests of inestimable craftsmanship and value, the masterful sculptures, the infinitely varied patterns and silverwork" -- and he neglected to mention the greatest treasures of all, paintings by such masters as Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi.

    David Galenson: Art and Money in Renaissance Florence David Galenson 2011

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