FRA ANGELICOBy James Mason A short introduction to the art of Fra Angelico, covering every period in the painters career. Fully illustrated. Fra Angelico, known by several 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 Angelicos paintings are religious he did not paint secular portraits, like, say, Giovanni Bellini or Ghirlandaio. It was Vasari who stressed Angelicos purity, holiness, faith, humility and devout nature, and this description of Angelico as a holy monklike painter persists throughout the centuries. John Ruskin called Angelico an inspired saint. Fra Angelico stands at the transition between the mediaeval and Renaissance worlds. Angelicos 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 Angelicos paintings seem simple, but their simplicity is deceptive they are the products of training and skill. Giulio Carlo Argan reminds us that everything points to Fra Angelicos being in touch with the most advanced artists of his early day. The deep spiritual feeling and tenderness of Fra Angelicos art seems simple or innocent. It does not seem cynical...

Binding: Paperback;112 pages; Publisher: Crescent Moon Publishing; Classification: ACND; Weight: 306 g; Dimensions: 233 x 155 x 9

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