Fra Angelico : heaven on earth /

Accompanying the exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, this catalogue explores one of the most important artists of the Renaissance. Fra Angelico (c. 1395-1455) transformed painting in Florence with pioneering images, rethinking popular compositions and investing traditional Chr...

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Main Authors: Silver, Nathaniel E. (Editor), Beller, Alexa (Author)
Other Authors: Angelico, fra, approximately 1400-1455
Format: Book
Language:English
Created: Boston : London : Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum ; Paul Holberton Publishing, 2018.
Subjects:
Angelico, > fra, > approximately 1400-1455 > Exhibitions.
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint > Art > Exhibitions.
Art, Renaissance > Italy > Exhibitions.
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Table of Contents:
  • Director's foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • "Our lady across the seas" Isabella Stewart Gardner and the first Fra Angelico in America / Jeremy Howard
  • The provenance of the four reliquaries for the Church for Santa Maria Novella / Chiara Pidatella
  • Fra Angelico, Giovanni Masi, and the reliquaries for Santa Maria Novella / Nathaniel Silver
  • Fra Angelico and Siena : contextualizing the painted reliquary / Beth Williamson
  • Fra Angelico and Santa Maria Novella / Carl Brandon Strehlke
  • What Alberti saw : Fra Angelico, historia, and Dominican Florence / Nathaniel Silver
  • Fra Angelico's tears : empathy and the rhetoric of painting / William Hood
  • The History of the Museo di San Marco / Marilena Tamassia
  • Fra Angelico's Dormition and assumption of the Virgin : transformations old and new / Gianfranco Pocobene and Alexa Beller.

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