Bidspirit auction | After Fra Angelico 19th Century

After Fra Angelico 19th Century Devotional Tabernacle Panel - This painting directly copies Fra Angelico's famous Linaioli Tabernacle from 1433. This copy was likely recreated for wealthy travelers in the 19th century in Florence, Italy.    Individual Panel: 8” Wide x 35” Tall  Whole Tabernacle Panel: 27” Wide x 63” Tall    Condition: There is wear and aging throughout. Wear and cracking throughout the gilded ornamental panel elements, with loss of gilding in areas. Wear and minor loss of paint throughout the images. The left image has a 7” crack in the wood.     Artist Bio: Fra Angelico (c.1395–1455), born Guido di Pietro, was a Dominican friar and the pivotal Florentine painter between the International Gothic gold-ground tradition and the Renaissance, best known for the San Marco frescoes and the San Marco Altarpiece of 1439, which established the sacra conversazione format. His hallmark is early linear perspective and naturalistic depth combined with luminous color and lavish gold leaf. The nineteenth century saw a broad revival of interest in the Italian primitives, and gold-ground devotional panels and tabernacles in his manner were produced in quantity for private devotion.