Original: Fra Angelico ( c. 1395 -- February 18 , 1455 ) , born Guido di Pietro , was an Early Italian Renaissance painter described by Vasari in his Lives of the Artists as having '' a rare and perfect talent '' .
Simplified: Fra Angelico was born in Mugello near Fiesole in Tuscany , Italy probably about 1385-87 and died in Rome in 1455 .