The 19th century did not do right by Fra Angelico (around 1395-1455). Born Guido di Pietro, the artist was known in his lifetime as Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, and only after his death as Fra Angelico (the angelic friar). In the early 1430s Fra Angelico finished Lorenzo Monaco’s Strozzi Altarpiece, begun a decade earlier and here part of the Palazzo Strozzi display. Many of the core altarpiece panels were already in Florence, Strehlke explains, which proved to be a “winning argument”. “When you have a big monographic show like this,” he says, “other lending institutions like to participate.”• Fra Angelico , Palazzo Strozzi and Museo di San Marco, Florence, 26 September-25 January 2026