Explore the History of this artwork, Coronation of the Virgin (Fra Angelico, Uffizi).
The work is mentioned as by Fra Angelico in a manuscript of the Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze.  Giorgio Vasari writes that it was located in the church of Sant'Egidio at Florence. Two panels of the predella which once was part of the work are known; they portray the Marriage and the Funeral of the Virgin, and are currently exhibited in the museum of San Marco, Florence.The altarpiece arrived at the Uffizi in 1825. The current frame dates to this period.
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