Benedetto da Fiesole

In this Renaissance Italian name, the name Fiesole is an indicator of birthplace or paternity, not a family name; the person is properly referred to by the given name, Benedetto.

Fra Benedetto da Fiesole (died 1448), also known as Benedetto da Mugello, was an Italian artist.

Life

Benedetto was born at the village of Vicchio, in the Florentine province of Mugello. he was a – probably younger – brother of the celebrated Fra Angelico, and with him entered the Convent of San Domenico at Fiesole in 1407, taking the name of Frater Benedictus, by which he is usually known. For three years previous to his death, which occurred in 1448, he held the post of superior of that convent. Fra Benedetto was a miniaturist of talent. He illuminated the choral books of San Marco, Florence, and also books in the convent of San Domenico, Fiesole. He is supposed also to have assisted Fra Angelico in his frescoes in San Marco.

Sources

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Fiesole, Fra Benedetto da". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.