# Head of a Cleric [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ANGELICO, Fra]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Metalpoint on prepared ochre surface, heightened with white, 189 x 173 mm ## Commentary Head of a Cleric c. 1448 Metalpoint on prepared ochre surface, heightened with white, 189 x 173 mm Royal Library, Windsor This study of exceptional quality is either a drawing by Fra Angelico which should be considered as a model given by the master to his pupils, or it is the work of the most famous of Angelico's pupils at the time, Benozzo Gozzoli. The verso of the drawing depicts a group of figures directly related to the frescoes for the chapel of Pope Nicholas V, completed in the Vatican palace by Fra Angelico and his workshop about 1448. The verso can be ascribed to the studio of Fra Angelico. ## Related artworks - [A Bishop Saint]() - [Adoration of the Magi and Man of Sorrows \(Cell 39\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Annalena Altarpiece \(detail\)]() - [Annalena Altarpiece]() - [Annalena Altarpiece \(without predella\)]() - [Annunciation and Adoration of the Magi]() - [Annunciation \(Cell 3\)]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()