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Fra Angelico
Hardcover
Art HistoryGeneral ArtIndividual Artists
Publisher Price: $75.00
Publisher: Marsilio Arte
Published: Jan 27 2026
Pages: 456
Weight: 5.30
Height: 1.50 Width: 9.90 Depth: 11.70
Language: English
A glorious publication on the saintly and excellent Florentine friar and painter whose religious scenes exemplify Renaissance theories of perspective and humanism
After exploring the language of Gothic painting, the great Tuscan artist Fra Angelico enthusiastically took up the new principles of Renaissance art then emerging in Florence. This volume offers a thorough exploration of the extraordinary talent of this artist, bringing out his capacity for artistic innovation in the service of deep spiritual values.
Born in Vicchio di Mugello as Guido di Pietro, Fra Angelico (c. 1395-1455) joined the Dominican order as a mendicant friar. He painted several frescoes for the Convent of San Marco in Florence, including the Annunciation, and decorated Cosimo de Medici's personal room in the monastery. In his later years he was called to Rome to decorate chapels for Pope Eugene IV and then Pope Nicholas V. Of his life, Giorgio Vasari wrote: it is impossible to bestow too much praise on this holy father, who was so humble and modest in all that he did and said and whose pictures were painted with such facility and piety.
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