Fra Angelico at San Marco

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Fra Angelico at San Marco

William Hood

Yale University Press, 1993

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-335) and index

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内容説明

Fra Angelico's fresco paintings at the Dominican priory of San Marco are among the best-loved works of Italian art, yet they have been oddly neglected by art historians. In this book, William Hood analyzes the newly cleaned frescoes at San Marco, setting them against the background of 15th-century Florentine artistic, political, cultural, and religious history. Hood discusses the ideals, daily rituals, and pictorial traditions of the Dominican order - especially the reformed or Observant branch to which Fra Angelico belonged. He presents new material on traditions of religious art, altarpiece design and imagery, and the decoration of chapter rooms and cloisters. Hood compares Angelico's work at San Marco to earlier Dominican altarpieces and to Angelico's other alterpieces for Dominican buildings in Siena, Pisa, Prato, and Florence, pointing out both the traditional elements and the novelty of the San Marco altarpiece. Similarly, by comparing San Marco to other Florentine fresco cycles, he illuminates the originality of the cloister and chapter-house of San Marco. Hood's discussion of San Marco follows and itinerary through the church and adjoining convent buildings, beginning with the high altarpiece and ending with the corridor paintings - especially the exquisite "Annunciation" in the dormitory corridor. Throughout, he analyzes Angelico's use of colour, his technique in fresco and tempera, the way he solved specific visual problems and how his paintings affected 15th-century viewers.

目次

Foreword and Acknowledgements Introduction: San Marco Problems 1 The Myth of Original Perfection: The Ideals of the Dominican Observance in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany 2 Contingency and Discontinuity: The Observant Dominican Community at San Marco in Florence, 1436-55 3 Traditio : Dominican Altarpiece Conventions in Fourteenth-Century Tuscany 4 The Limits of Likeness: Fra Angelico's Dominican Altarpieces before 1440 5 Real Presence: 'Me San Marco Altarpiece 6 Ritual Sites: Florentine Painted Cloisters and the Representation of History 7 The Liturgy of the Dominican Constitutions: Frescoes in the Cloister of San Marco 8 The Community of Believers: The Crucifixion in the Chapter Room of San Marco 9 Habits and Manners: Frescoes in the Novices' Dormitory 10 Eloquence and Contemplation: Frescoes in the Clerics' Dormitory I Servants and Patrons: Frescoes in the Laybrothers' Dormitory and in Cosimo de'Medici's Cell 12 Nature and Grace in the Art of Fra Angelica: The Madonna of the Shadows and the Constitutions in 1445.

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