Focus on this artwork and discuss the History.
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).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.
San Domenico Fiesole Altarpiece Annunciation Florence France Uffizi the pillages Napoleonic Wars Fra Angelico Museo del Prado similar painting in the Uffizi Fiesole John Pope-Hennessy