书名：Fra Angelico: Heaven on Earth / 弗拉·安吉利科：人间天堂
定价：398.0
ISBN：9781911300397
作者：Nathaniel Silver
版次：1
出版时间：2018-02

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题 目：Fra Angelico: Heaven on Earth / 弗拉·安吉利科：人间天堂

作 者：Nathaniel Silver

出 版：Paul Holberton Publishing，2018

装 帧：精装，250页

语 种：英语

尺 寸：24*28 cm

 

 

Accompanying the exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, this catalogue explores one of the most important artists of the Renaissance. Fra Angelico (about 1395–1455) transformed Western art with pioneering images, rethinking popular compositions and investing traditional Christian subjects with new meaning. His altarpieces and frescoes set new standards for quality and ingenuity, securing his place in history. With the intellect of a Dominican theologian, the technical facility of Florence’s finest craftsmen and the business acumen of its shrewdest merchants, he forged the future of painting in Italy and beyond.

 

The exhibition reunites for the first time Fra Angelico’s four reliquaries for Santa Maria Novella (1424-34; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Museo di San Marco, Florence). Together they cover key episodes in the life of the Virgin Mary and capture in miniature some of his most important compositional innovations. Assembled at the Gardner with exceptional examples of Angelico’s narrative paintings from collections in Europe and the United States, Heaven on Earth explores his celebrated talents as a storyteller and the artistic contributions that shaped a new ideal of painting in Florence.