The extraordinary diversity of style and talents in late 15th-century Florentine sculpture was mirrored in painting. The legacy of Donatello and Masaccio included a new variety of faces (the lynx-eyed Gothic look disappeared) and a more studied placing of figures in their environment and in relation to one another. The traditional restraint and refinement of Florentine painting was not abandoned – Donatello’s more dramatic later works found less favour in Florence – as in the work of an artist like Fra Angelico, a Dominican friar who became prior of the monastery of Fiesole. He was in fact older than Masaccio, but lived much longer (he died in 1455). Nothing is known of his early training as a painter, and in many respects his work is more closely allied with the Gothic than the Renaissance.