# Virgin and Child with Sts Dominic and Thomas Aquinas [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ANGELICO, Fra]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Detached fresco transferred to canvas, 196 x 184 cm ## Commentary Virgin and Child with Sts Dominic and Thomas Aquinas c. 1445 Detached fresco transferred to canvas, 196 x 184 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg This fresco comes from the monastery of San Domenico da Fiesole, where Fra Angelico, a Dominican monk, was prior. After the monastery was closed in the 19th century this fresco was removed and sold. Originally the fresco was located at the top of the stairs leading to the dormitory. Without pursuing the dynamic action and spatial depth sought by most of his contemporaries, Fra Angelico achieves a sculpture-like monumentality that links this artist with the refined intellectual Piero della Francesca. ## 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]()