Fra Angelico
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Fra Angelico
Phaidon Press, 2008
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Note
Includes bibliography (p. 234-236) and index.
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This accessible yet authoritative volume examines the life and work of possibly the most celebrated religious painter of the Italian Early Renaissance, Fra Giovanni da Fiesole (c. 1390/95-1455), known as Fra Angelico. From the delicate altarpieces of his early career to the serene frescos in the monastery of San Marco in Florence and the many magnificent works he executed for the Popes in the Vatican, Fra Angelico's paintings are here discussed in the context of the time and places in which they were created, and are beautifully reproduced in their true, glorious colours.
Table of Contents
Introduction / Chapter One - 'Magnificence and Splendour', Poverty and War: The Florence of Fra Angelico / Chapter Two - 'Friar John of the Friars of San Domenico': Paintings from the 1420s / Chapter Three - 'With all his art and expertise': Angelico in the early 1430s / Chapter Four - Angelico the 'Master Painter': Dominican Connections in Fiesole, Cortona and Florence / Chapter Five - 'A man of absolute modesty devoted to religious life': Angelico at San Marco / Chapter Six - 'Famous beyond all other Italian painters': Angelico in Rome and Orvieto / Chapter Seven - 'The Servant of God': The Final Works / Afterlife
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