# Madonna of Mercy with Kneeling Friars [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ANGELICO, Fra]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Tempera and gold on parchment, 475 x 350 mm ## Commentary Madonna of Mercy with Kneeling Friars c. 1424 Tempera and gold on parchment, 475 x 350 mm Museo di San Marco, Florence The book of hymns for the Mass, that contains the sung portions of the Mass and the liturgy for the feast days of several saints, known as Messale 558, comprises 261 folios, thirty-six of which are embellished with large, decorated divinities in elaborate frames surrounded by brilliantly coloured vine scrolls. Many of them are by Fra Angelico, although another artist assisted him, confirming his establishment of a workshop in San Domenico in these early years. The Madonna of Mercy is from Messale 558. ## 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]()