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1. Fra Angelico (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series) by Laurence Kanter, Pia Palladino | |
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(2005-11-11)
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Editorial Review Product Description This beautiful book, published in conjunction with the first major exhibition of Fra Angelico’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 artist’s career, from round 1410 to 1455. Also included will be fifty selected works by his assistants and closest followers.Fra Angelico (the angelic friar”; ca. 1390/951455) was one of Renaissance Florence’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 artist’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. Customer Reviews (5)
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2. Fra Angelico: Colour Library by Christopher Lloyd | |
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(1998-08-12)
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3. Fra Angelico by John T. Spike | |
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(1997-05-01)
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4. Fra Angelico: Art and Religion in the Renaissance by Rosalind Mutter | |
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(2008-02-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description FRA ANGELICO, known by various names, including Fra Giovanni Beato Angelico da Fiesole (1399?-1455), is one of the very few painters of the Italian Renaissance who painted religious pictures exclusively. Almost all Angelico’s paintings are religious – he did not paint secular portraits, like, say, Giovanni Bellini or Ghirlandaio. It was Vasari who stressed Angelico’s purity, holiness, faith, humility and devout nature, and this description of Angelico as a holy monk-like painter persists throughout the centuries. John Ruskin called Angelico ‘an inspired saint’. It is in San Marco in Florence that Angelico’s ‘saintly’ reputation was forged. He (with assistants) painted fifty frescoes at San Marco. The paintings reveal a traditional form of Christian worship: Angelico’s is a conventional kind of Christian theology and devotion. Some critics emphasize Angelico as a stylist. Of course, Angelico did not separate style from content in the way modern critics do. Clearly, they are part of the same thing. For the Renaissance religious painter, the aim is to come up with a style, colouration and technique which accords with one’s beliefs, as well as flattering the faith of one’s patrons. So Angelico’s ‘sweet style’ stems from his blending of painterly technique with religious understanding. Fra Angelico stands at the transition between the mediæval and Renaissance worlds. Angelico’s ‘feelings are in the Middle Ages’, Bernard Berenson wrote, yet he was distinctly a Quattrocento, Renaissance painter. His art combines the timelessness and rigidity of icon painting, where figures are caught in bright, static, hieratic motions, with the new painterly explorations (in form, style and space) of the Quattrocento period. Fra Angelico’s paintings seem simple, but their simplicity is deceptive: they are the products of training and skill. Giulio Carlo Argan reminds us that ‘[e]verything points to Fra Angelico’s being in touch with the most advanced artists of his early day’. The deep spiritual feeling and tenderness of Fra Angelico’s art seems ‘simple’ or ‘innocent’. It does not seem cynical and world-weary. Yes, but the simplicity is not so much childish as child-like, as a regaining of the freshness of the spirit of childhood. A reactivation of the maternal realm, perhaps, which Fra Angelico manages to accomplish with a directness most other painters are incapable of reproducing. |
5. Fra Angelico by Diane Cole Ahl | |
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(2008-04-02)
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6. The Life of Fra Angelico Da Fiesole by Thomas G. Goodwin | |
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(2010-02-04)
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7. Fra Angelico: Dissemblance and Figuration by Georges Didi-Huberman | |
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(1995-10-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description A Florentine painter who took Dominican vows, Fra Angelico (1400-1455) approached his work as a largely theological project. For him, the problems of representing the unrepresentable, of portraying the divine and the spiritual, mitigated the more secular breakthroughs in imitative technique. Didi-Huberman explores Fra Angelico's solutions to these problems--his use of color to signal approaching visibility, of marble to recall Christ's tomb, of paint drippings to simulate (or stimulate) holy anointing. He shows how the painter employed emptiness, visual transformation, and displacement to give form to the mystery of faith. In the work of Fra Angelico, an alternate strain of Renaissance painting emerges to challenge rather than reinforce verisimilitude. Didi-Huberman traces this disruptive impulse through theological writings and iconographic evidence and identifies a widespread tradition in Renaissance art that ranges from Giotto's break with Byzantine image-making well into the sixteenth century. He reveals how the techniques that served this ultimately religious impulse may have anticipated the more abstract characteristics of modern art, such as color fields, paint spatterings, and the absence of color. Customer Reviews (1)
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8. The Rosary with Fra Angelico and Giotto by Domenico Marcucci | |
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(2005-04-20)
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9. Fra Angelico: The San Marco Frescoes by Paolo Morachiello, Fra Angelico | |
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(1996-11)
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10. Fra Angelico at San Marco by Professor William Hood | |
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(1993-04-28)
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11. Vanishing Point: The Woman of Porto Pim ; The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico by Antonio; Parks, Tim Tabucchi | |
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(1993)
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12. Fra Angelico: San Marco, Florence (The Great Fresco Cycles of the Renaissance) by William Hood, Fra Angelico | |
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(1995-10)
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13. Fra Angelico (Los Grandes Maestros Del Arte Series) (Spanish Edition) by John Wyndham, Sir Pope-Hennessy | |
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(1992-12)
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14. Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance Drawings by Hugo Chapman, Marzia Faietti | |
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(2010-03-08)
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15. The Splendor of the Rosary by Maisie Ward | |
Hardcover: 165
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(1945)
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16. The Scriptural Rosary (Regina Classics) | |
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(2000-03)
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17. Fra Angelico: The Light of the Soul by Jacqueline Guillaud | |
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(1986-09-13)
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18. From Fra Angelico to Bonnard: Masterpieces from the Rau Collection by Marc Restellini | |
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(2001-02-01)
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19. 100 Great Artists: A Visual Journey from Fra Angelico to Andy Warhol by Charlotte Gerlings | |
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(2006-02-07)
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20. Fra Angelico by J. B. Supino | |
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(2009-03-05)
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