page_title: Coronation of the Virgin (Fra Angelico, Louvre)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Coronation of the Virgin (Fra Angelico, Louvre) / History
caption_attribution_description: Angelico, predella dell&#39;incoronazione della vergine del louvre, storie di san domenico, 1434-35 00 sogno di san domenico.jpg
context_page_description: The Coronation of the Virgin is a painting of the Coronation of the Virgin by the Italian early Renaissance master Fra Angelico, executed around 1434–1435. It is now in the Musée du Louvre of Paris, France. The artist executed another Coronation of the Virgin, now in the Uffizi in Florence.
context_section_description: The work is not thought to have originally been painted around 1434 (a few years after the similar painting in the Uffizi) for the convent of San Domenico of Fiesole, near Florence, where Fra Angelico was a Dominican friar and for which he painted also the Fiesole Altarpiece (1424-1425) and the Annunciation now at the Museo del Prado. Some art historians, such as John Pope-Hennessy, date it instead to Angelico's visit to Rome (1450) what is known as two simmm to similarities with the Santa Lucia de' Magnoli Altarpiece by Domenico Veneziano (c. 1445) or the Gothic tabernacles in the Vatican's Niccoline Chapel (1446-1448).
  The painting was brought to France as a result of the pillages of the Napoleonic Wars. Like several other artworks, it was not given back with the excuse of its large size.
caption: Detail of the predella with the Dream of Innocent III.
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