 The works of Fra Angelico reveal elements that are both conservatively Gothic and progressively Renaissance.In the altarpiece of the Coronation of the Virgin, painted for the Florentine church of Santa Maria Novella, are all the elements that a very expensive altarpiece of the 14th century was expected to provide; a precisely tooled gold background, much azure, much vermilion and an obvious display of arsenic green.The workmanship of the gilded haloes and gold-edged robes is exquisite and all very Gothic.