Coronation of the Virgin (Fra Angelico, Uffizi) Coronation of the Virgin (Fra Angelico, Uffizi) The Coronation of the Virgin is a painting of the Coronation of the Virgin by the Italian early Renaissance painter Fra Angelico, executed around 1432. It is now in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence. The artist executed another "Coronation of the Virgin" (c. 1434-1435), now in the Louvre in Paris. The work is mentioned as by Fra Angelico in a manuscript of the Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, and 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
Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery Pagans Hill Roman Temple and the Orpheus Mosaic from Newton St Loe. There is a choice of galleries situated upstairs full of artworks: Old Masters, French School, British Collection, Modern Art and the Bristol School. In 2012, the museum was given the entire 50,000 piece collection of the former British Empire and Commonwealth Museum. The Friends of Bristol Art Gallery has supported the gallery since 1947, acquiring over 300 works of art for the gallery. The Friends of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery was founded in 1977 (first known as the “Bristol Magpies”) to support the principal sites of Bristol’s