All are in Angelico's happiest manner, with plenty of gold; and the predella of the Coronation is the prettiest thing possible, with its blue saints gathered about a blue Mary and Joseph, who bend over the Baby.
The Madonna della Stella is the picture which was stolen in 1911, but quickly recovered.

It is part of the strange complexity of this world that it should equally contain artists such as Fra Angelico and thieves such as those who planned and carried out this robbery: nominally custodians of the museum.

To repeat one of Vasari's sentences: "Some say that he never took up his brush without first making a prayer"....
The "Peter" with his finger to his lips, over the sacristy, is reminding the monks that that room is vowed to silence.

In the chapter house is the large Crucifixion by the same gentle hand, his greatest work in Florence, and very fine and true in character.

Beneath it are portraits of seventeen famous Dominicans with S.Dominic in the midst.