Virgin Reliquaries

The Virgin Reliquaries are four 1434 panel paintings by Fra Giovanni Masi after drawings by Fra Angelico, intended as tabernacle-reliquaries for the Convent of Santa Maria Novella.[1] One is in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston (Death and Assumption of the Virgin[2]) whilst the rest are in the Museo nazionale di San Marco in Florence.[3]

Annunciation and Adoration of the Magi	Death and Assumption of the Virgin Mary
Coronation of the Virgin	Mary, Star of the Sea

References

(in Italian) John Pope-Hennessy, Beato Angelico, Scala, Firenze 1981.
(in Italian) Guido Cornini, Beato Angelico, Giunti, Firenze 2000 ISBN 88-09-01602-5
"Catalogue entry" (in Italian).

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Fra Angelico
Paintings	Fiesole Altarpiece (1424–1425) The Last Judgment (1425–1430) San Pietro Martire Triptych (1428–1429) Annunciation (1430–1432) Coronation of the Virgin (c. 1432) Deposition of Christ (1432–1434) Annunciation (c. 1433-34) Tabernacle of the Linaioli (1433–1435) Madonna of Humility (1433–1435) Coronation of the Virgin (1434–1435) Annunciation (before 1435) Crucifixion with Mourners and St Dominic (c. 1435) Madonna and Child with St Dominic and St Thomas Aquinas (c. 1435) Croce al Tempio Lamentation (1436) Cortona Triptych (1436–1437) Perugia Altarpiece (c. 1437) The Annunciation (c. 1440-1445) Presentation at the Temple (1438–1440) San Marco Altarpiece (1438–1443) Frescoes in the Niccoline Chapel (1447–1449) Adoration of the Magi (c.1440/1460) (with Filippo Lippi) Armadio degli Argenti (1451-1453)
Related	Virgin Reliquaries (1434) (original drawings by Fra Angelico)
Museums	Museo Nazionale di San Marco