Fra Angelico by Laurence Kanter and Pia Palladino ; with contributions by Magnolia Scudieri [and others]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kanter, Laurence B.

Contributor:

Palladino, Pia

Angelico, fra, approximately 1400-1455

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Angelico, fra, approximately 1400-1455--Exhibitions.

Angelico.

Angelico, fra, approximately 1400-1455.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 336 pages) illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

New York Metropolitan Museum of Art ; [2005]

New Haven Yale University Press [2005]

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Summary:

"In commemoration of the five hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the death of Fra Angelico (about 1395-1455), one of the foremost artists of the Italian Renaissance, The Metropolitan Museum of Art set out to reexamine his career and to establish a more historically accurate profile of the innovative, extraordinarily gifted "angelic friar, ' in order to dispel the myths and legends that have eclipsed the details of his life. New documentary research and standards for attributions, developed over the last three decades, provided the impetus for this reappraisal - only the second major exhibition of Fra Angelico's art ever held, and the first since 1955. Comprising about seventy-five paintings, drawings, and manuscript illuminations ascribed to Angelico and spanning the period from 1410 to 1455, as well as about forty works by his collaborators, this presentation includes several newly discovered paintings and a number of new proposals for reconstructions of important, dispersed altarpieces. Additionally, drawings by the master are analyzed in terms of their original function and in the context of discussion of the artist's workshop, its identifiable members, and their respective contribution to its artistic output." "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."--Jacket

Contents:

Fra Angelico: the early works / Laurence Kanter

Pilgrims and desert fathers: Dominican spirituality and the holy land / Pia Palladino

A velvet revolution: Fra Angelico's high altarpiece for San Domenico in Fiesole / Anneke de Vries

Fra Angelico: a decade of transition (1422-32) / Laurence Kanter

Fra Angelico: artistic maturity and late career (1435-55) / Laurence Kanter

The frescoes by Fra Angelico at San Marco / Magnolia Scudieri

Fra Angelico: a Florentine painter in "Roma Felix" / Carl Brandon Strehlke

Battista Di Biago Sanguigni and Zanobi Strozzi / Laurence Kanter

Francesco Di Stefano, called Pesellino / Laurence Kanter

Giovanni Di Consalvo and the master of the Sherman Predella / Laurence Kanter

Benozzo Gozzoli (Benozzo Di Lese Di Sandro) / Pia Palladino

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-326) and index

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Kanter, Laurence B. Fra Angelico

OCLC:

680441652