ANGELICO Fra

Italian Early Renaissance Painter, ca.1387-1455 Italian painter, illuminator and Dominican friar. He rose from obscure beginnings as a journeyman illuminator to the renown of an artist whose last major commissions were monumental fresco cycles in St Peter's and the Vatican Palace, Rome. He reached maturity in the early 1430s, a watershed in the history of Florentine art. None of the masters who had broken new ground with naturalistic painting in the 1420s was still in Florence by the end of that decade. The way was open for a new generation of painters, and Fra Angelico was the dominant figure among several who became prominent at that time, including Paolo Uccello, Fra Filippo Lippi and Andrea del Castagno. By the early 1430s Fra Angelico was operating the largest and most prestigious workshop in Florence. His paintings offered alternatives to the traditional polyptych altarpiece type and projected the new naturalism of panel painting on to a monumental scale. In fresco projects of the 1440s and 1450s, both for S Marco in Florence and for S Peter's and the Vatican Palace in Rome, Fra Angelico softened the typically astringent and declamatory style of Tuscan mural decoration with the colouristic and luminescent nuances that characterize his panel paintings. His legacy passed directly to the second half of the 15th century through the work of his close follower Benozzo Gozzoli and indirectly through the production of Domenico Veneziano and Piero della Francesca. Fra Angelico was undoubtedly the leading master in Rome at mid-century, and had the survival rate of 15th-century Roman painting been greater, his significance for such later artists as Melozzo da Forli and Antoniazzo Romano might be clearer than it is.
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ANGELICO Fra Christ the Judge oil


Christ the Judge
Painting ID::  4808 		Christ the Judge
1447 Fresco Chapel of San Brizio, Duomo, Orvieto
1447 Fresco Chapel_of_San_Brizio,_Duomo,_Orvieto
   
   
     
ANGELICO Fra Prophets oil


Prophets
Painting ID::  4809 		Prophets
1447 Fresco Chapel of San Brizio, Duomo, Orvieto
1447 Fresco Chapel_of_San_Brizio,_Duomo,_Orvieto
   
   
     
ANGELICO Fra The Naming of St. John the Baptist oil


The Naming of St. John the Baptist
Painting ID::  4810 		The Naming of St. John the Baptist
1434-35 Tempera on panel, 26 x 24 cm Museo di San Marco, Florence
   
   
     
ANGELICO Fra Saint Anthony the Abbot Tempted by a Lump of Gold oil


Saint Anthony the Abbot Tempted by a Lump of Gold
Painting ID::  4811 		Saint Anthony the Abbot Tempted by a Lump of Gold
c. 1436 Tempera on panel, 19.7 x 28 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
   
   
     
ANGELICO Fra Resurrection of Christ and Women at the Tomb oil


Resurrection of Christ and Women at the Tomb
Painting ID::  43859 		Resurrection of Christ and Women at the Tomb
1440-41 Fresco, 189 x 164 cm
1440-41_ Fresco,_ 189_x_164_cm
   
   
     
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     ANGELICO Fra
     Italian Early Renaissance Painter, ca.1387-1455 Italian painter, illuminator and Dominican friar. He rose from obscure beginnings as a journeyman illuminator to the renown of an artist whose last major commissions were monumental fresco cycles in St Peter's and the Vatican Palace, Rome. He reached maturity in the early 1430s, a watershed in the history of Florentine art. None of the masters who had broken new ground with naturalistic painting in the 1420s was still in Florence by the end of that decade. The way was open for a new generation of painters, and Fra Angelico was the dominant figure among several who became prominent at that time, including Paolo Uccello, Fra Filippo Lippi and Andrea del Castagno. By the early 1430s Fra Angelico was operating the largest and most prestigious workshop in Florence. His paintings offered alternatives to the traditional polyptych altarpiece type and projected the new naturalism of panel painting on to a monumental scale. In fresco projects of the 1440s and 1450s, both for S Marco in Florence and for S Peter's and the Vatican Palace in Rome, Fra Angelico softened the typically astringent and declamatory style of Tuscan mural decoration with the colouristic and luminescent nuances that characterize his panel paintings. His legacy passed directly to the second half of the 15th century through the work of his close follower Benozzo Gozzoli and indirectly through the production of Domenico Veneziano and Piero della Francesca. Fra Angelico was undoubtedly the leading master in Rome at mid-century, and had the survival rate of 15th-century Roman painting been greater, his significance for such later artists as Melozzo da Forli and Antoniazzo Romano might be clearer than it is.

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