# Fra Angelico Painting [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Pen and brown ink and ink wash, 178 x 114 mm ## Commentary Fra Angelico Painting c. 1853 Pen and brown ink and ink wash, 178 x 114 mm Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham Members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, rejecting the constraints of convention, turned to nature and studied 'the primitives' including Fra Angelico, whom they admired for the grace and sweetness of his work. In 1853, Rossetti portrayed the friar painting the Virgin and Child, a theme inspired by Vasari. ## Related artworks - [A Sea-Spell]() - [Beata Beatrix]() - [Ecce Ancilla Domini!]() - [La Donna della Finestra]() - [La Ghirlandata \(detail\)]() - [La Ghirlandata]() - [Monna Vanna]() - [Study for the Head of Astarte Syriaca]() - [The Blessed Damozel]() - [The Bride]() - [The Love Cup]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()