Angelico (fra)

Sixty Reproductions of Photographs from the Original Paintings

The Masterpieces of Fra Angelico (1387-1455)

Fra Angelico

Gabriele Bartz

The Dominican monk, Giovanni da Fiesole, known as Fra Angelico, is one of the most important and successful representatives of the transition between the end of the Gothic era and the beginning of the early Renaissance in Italy. His unique work is deeply imbued with monastic belief and thought, and he unites a sense of perspective and delicate architectural backdrop with a true-to-life depiction of the human form.

Guido Di Piero, Known as Fra Angelico, Ca. 1395-1455

John T. Spike

Art historian Spike provides fresh insights into the life and work of the Dominican friar Fra Angelico (1400?-1455) who succeeded Masaccio as the foremost painter of the early Renaissance in Italy. This splendid, massive (11x13") volume contains an extensive essay on Fra Angelico's life and work, followed by large color plates and detailed discussion of individual works. The large format allows for an intimate look at the friar's inspired art, and the volume is a feast for the eyes. A catalog presents his oeuvre, as revised by Spike's new attributions, illustrated with thumbnail reproductions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Christopher Lloyd

David White

Surveys the life and work of fifteenth-century artist Fra Angelico, and includes over eighty color and black-and-white illustrations.

Colour Library

Florentine School

Diane Cole Ahl

Examines the life and work of possibly the most celebrated religious painter of the Italian Early Renaissance, Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, known as Fra Angelico. From the delicate altarpieces to the serene frescos in the monastery of San Marco in Florence, this book discusses the context of the time and places in which his works were created.

André Leclerc

Irene Immerman

Jacqueline Guillaud

Maurice Guillaud

This overview focuses on the artist's work in the museum and cells of St. Mark's Convent in Florence

The Light of the Soul : Painting Panels and Frescoes from the Convent of San Marco, Florence

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Laurence B. Kanter

Pia Palladino

"In essays and related entries, the first seven sections of the catalogue follow the course of Angelico's career. The study opens with his earliest, largely undocumented, activity as a painter (in the 1410s), before he joined the Dominican order, emphasizing those works that reflect his artistic, intellectual, and spiritual milieu. In dealing with the paintings of the 1420s, many of which will be unfamiliar to the general public and are the subject of widespread disagreement among scholars regarding dating and attribution, the authors attempt to establish their chronology within the master's oeuvre."--BOOK JACKET.

Georges Didi-Huberman

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. Part of Didi-Huberman's large-scale rethinking of art theory and history, and the first of his books to appear in English translation, Fra Angelico is a fitting introduction to one of the most original and celebrated writers in the world of art history and criticism.

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