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Fra Angelico (Published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art) Book

This beautiful book presents more than seventy paintings, drawings, and manuscript illuminations from all periods in the career of Fra Angelico, one of Renaissance Florenceâ??s premier painters. Selected works by his assistants and followers are also included, along with a historically reliable biography of the "angelic friar" whose innovative works retain their inspirational power today.Read More

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    This beautiful book, published in conjunction with the first major exhibition of Fra Angelicoâ??s work since the cinquecentenary exhibition of 1955 in Florence, will feature more than seventy paintings, drawings, and manuscript illuminations covering all periods of the artistâ??s career, from round 1410 to 1455. Also included will be fifty selected works by his assistants and closest followers.

    Fra Angelico (“the angelic friarâ?; ca. 1390/95-1455) was one of Renaissance Florenceâ??s leading painters. In addition to his celebrated altarpieces and frescos in Florence, Fiesole, Cortona, Perugia, and Rome, Fra Angelico also  completed many masterpieces on a small scale. His predella panels, the small narrative scenes included beneath large altarpieces, are among the most innovative creations in fifteenthcentury Florence, while his images of the Virgin and Child still retain the inspirational immediacy and presence that first secured the artistâ??s reputation as the premier painter of his age.

    Research undertaken in the last fifty years now allows scholars to reconstruct a more historically reliable biography of Fra Angelico that goes beyond the legends and traditions to establish his position not only as one of the greatest masters of the fifteenth century, but also as one of the most intellectually accomplished painters who ever lived.

  • 0300111401
  • 9780300111408
  • L Kanter
  • 14 October 2005
  • Yale University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 348
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