Editing Fra Angelico (section)

===Death and beatification===
[[File:Fra Angelico, Fra Filippo Lippi, The Adoration of the Magi.jpg|thumb|left|300px|The ''[[Adoration of the Magi (Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi)|Adoration of the Magi]]'' is a [[Tondo (art)|tondo]] of the [[Adoration of the Magi|scene when wise men from the east arrived]]. It is credited to Fra Angelico and [[Filippo Lippi]] and dates to c. 1440/1460.]]
In 1455, Fra Angelico died while staying at a Dominican convent in Rome, perhaps on an order to work on Pope Nicholas' chapel. He was buried in the church of [[Santa Maria sopra Minerva]].<ref name=Vasari/><ref name=WMR/><ref>The tomb has been given greater visibility since the beatification.</ref> 
{{Blockquote|When singing my praise, don't liken my talents to those of [[Apelles]]. <br/> Say, rather, that, in the name of Christ, I gave all I had to the poor.<br/>
The deeds that count on Earth are not the ones that count in Heaven.<br/>
I, Giovanni, am the flower of Tuscany.|Translation of epitaph<ref name=Vasari/>}}
''Apelles (see main article) was a highly renowned painter of [[Ancient Greece]], whose output, now completely lost, is thought to have centred chronologically around 330 BCE.'' 

On display near the main altar is a marble tombstone, an exceptional honour for an artist at that time. Two epitaphs were written, probably by [[Lorenzo Valla]]. The first reads:
'''"In this place is enshrined the glory, the mirror, and the ornament of painters, John the Florentine. A religious and a true servant of God, he was a brother of the holy Order of Saint Dominic. His disciples mourn the death of such a great master, for who will find another brush like his? His homeland and his order mourn the death of a distinguished painter, who had no equal in his art."''' Inside a Renaissance style niche is the painter's relief in Dominican habit. A second epitaph reads:
'''"Here lies the venerable painter Brother John of the Order of Preachers. May I be praised not because I looked like another Apelles, but because I have offered to you, O Christ, all my wealth. For some, their works survive on earth; for others in heaven. The city of Florence gave birth to me, John."'''

The English writer and critic [[William Michael Rossetti]] wrote of the friar:
{{Blockquote|From various accounts of Fra Angelico's life, it is possible to gain some sense of why he was deserving of canonization. He led the devout and ascetic life of a Dominican friar, and never rose above that rank; he followed the dictates of the order in caring for the poor; he was always good-humored. All of his many paintings were of divine subjects, and it seems that he never altered or retouched them, perhaps from a religious conviction that, because his paintings were divinely inspired, they should retain their original form. He was wont to say that he who illustrates the acts of Christ should be with Christ. It is averred that he never handled a brush without fervent prayer and he wept when he painted a Crucifixion. [[The Last Judgment (Angelico)|The Last Judgment]] and the Annunciation were two of the subjects he most frequently treated.{{sfn|Rossetti|1911|p=7}}<ref name=WMR>{{cite web |url=https://orderofpreachersindependent.org/2016/03/18/fra-angelico-2/ |title=Fra Angelico |access-date=1 May 2016 |author=Rossetti, William Michael (as attributed) |date=18 March 2016 |publisher=orderofpreachersindependent.org}}</ref>}}

Pope John Paul II beatified Fra Angelico on 3 October 1982, and in 1984 declared him patron of Catholic artists.<ref name="blessed"/>{{blockquote|Angelico was reported to say "He who does Christ's work must stay with Christ always". This motto earned him the epithet "Blessed Angelico", because of the perfect integrity of his life and the almost divine beauty of the images he painted, to a superlative extent those of the Blessed Virgin Mary.|[[Pope John Paul II]]}}