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Updated: June 30, 2025
Upstairs, in the cells, and pre-eminently in the passage, where his best known Annunciation is to be seen, Angelico is at his best. In each cell is a little fresco reminding the brother of the life of Christ and of those by Angelico it may be said that each is as simple as it can be and as sweet: easy lines, easy colours, with the very spirit of holiness shining out.
Michelangelo The David The tomb of Julius A contrast Fra Angelico The beatific painter Cimabue and Giotto Masaccio Gentile da Fabriano Domenico Ghirlandaio Fra Angelico again Fra Bartolommeo Perugino Botticelli The "Primavera" Leonardo da Vinci and Verrocchio Botticelli's sacred pictures Botticini Tapestries of Eden.
Every visitor to Florence knows the venerable monastery of San Marco, with its hallowed relics of Savonarola, and its beautiful frescoes of Fra Angelico. In a large apartment of this monastery, which was formerly the library of the monks, are now held the meetings of the famous Della Cruscan Academy, instituted in 1582 for the purpose of purifying the national language.
Now, you will not declare you cannot believe that Angelico painting the life of Christ, Benozzo painting the life of Abraham, Ghirlandajo painting the life of the Virgin, Giotto painting the life of St.
The chief merit of the pictures of Fra Angelico is the sweet and tender expression of the faces of his angels and saints, or any beings who are holy and good; he never succeeded in painting evil and sin in such a way as to terrify one; his gentle nature did not permit him to represent that which it could not comprehend, and the very spirit of purity seems to breathe through every picture.
Fra Angelico should have confined himself to miniature heads, in which his delicacy of touch and minute labor often produce an excellent effect. The custode informed us that there were more frescos of this pious artist in the interior of the convent, into which I might be allowed admittance, but not my wife. I declined seeing them, and heartily thanked heaven for my escape.
But there were men who felt differently: the men who loved splendour and detail. To Gentile da Fabriano, that wonderful man in whom begins the colour and romance of Venetian painting, the adoration of the kings could not possibly be what it had been for the Giottesques, or what it still was for Angelico. The Madonna, St.
His drawing is correct beyond reproach a little stiff, like the early painters. You can guess from his works his partiality for the old masters Perugino, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Memling, Holbein who, though not the masters in fashion, will always be masters in vigor of outline, directness, in simple grace, and genuine feeling.
But it would be difficult to discover in the pictures of Masaccio, Fra Filippo Lippi, Ghirlandajo, Botticelli and the other masters of the Italian fifteenth century, with the sole exception of Fra Angelico, the same depth of religious inspiration which pervades the works of the Van Eycks and of their disciples.
I remember two faces of women with wings, such as they call angels, of Fra Angelico, and I just now came across a print of Raphael's Santa Apollina, with something of the same quality, which I was sure had their prototypes in the world above ours. No wonder the Catholics pay their vows to the Queen of Heaven! The unpoetical side of Protestantism is, that it has no women to be worshipped.
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