9780714848303: Fra Angelico
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{"authorDescription":"Diane Cole Ahl","bookshot2d":null,"bookshot3d":null,"bookshot3dSquare":null,"categories":[],"date":"","editionId":11993,"guid":"ff9a4948-400a-4c5c-9a26-de61408f3541","images":[],"markets":{"AUD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"79.95","show":false},"CAD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"75.00","show":false},"EUR":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"59.95","show":false},"GBP":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"39.95","show":false},"TEST":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"0.00","show":false},"USD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"69.95","show":false}},"related":[],"sku":"9780714848303","source":"BOOKs","specifications":{"binding":"Hardback","colIlls":"150","extent":"240","language":"English","lenInch":"11 3/8","lenMm":"290","weightKilo":"1.91","widthInch":"9 7/8","widthMm":"250"},"status":false,"subtitle":"","title":"Fra Angelico","uri":"","webAuthorDescription":"Diane Cole Ahl is the Arthur J '55 and Barbara S. Rothkopf Professor of Art History at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania. She holds a PhD from the University of Virginia and BA from Sarah Lawrence College, New York, and has received many grants and awards for teaching and scholarship. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eBenozzo Gozzoli\u003c/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Masaccio\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003e","webDescription":"","webKeywords":"","webLongDescription":"\u003cp\u003eFra Giovanni da Fiesole (\u003cem\u003ec\u003c/em\u003e. 1390/95–1455), known as Fra Angelico, was among the most celebrated religious painters of the Italian Early Renaissance. Adhering to the austere life of a Dominican friar despite his huge success, Fra Angelico was admired for his devotion. As his contemporary biographer Giorgio Vasari wrote ‘it is impossible to bestow too much praise on this holy father, who was so humble and modest in all that he did and said and whose pictures were painted with such facility and piety.’\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOriginally trained as an illuminator, Fra Angelico went on to paint altarpieces that even early on in his career showed great skill in the rendering of the figures, composition and use of colour. His most famous works are the astonishing frescos that decorate the cells, corridors and Chapter House of San Marco convent in Florence, to where Fra Angelico moved in 1436. A magnificent altarpiece was also among the commissions for the newly built monastery, which showed an unprecedented realism in the intimate arrangement of the holy figures.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiane Cole Ahl’s engaging text is combined with almost 200 images to create a book that is both informative and visually stunning. The works are discussed in detail, in the context of the time and places in which they were created, and Fra Angelico’s influence, both directly on his pupils such as Benozzo Gozzoli, and more wide-ranging on the artists that followed in the later Renaissance, is also examined. The original viewpoints of the author and the hitherto unpublished artwork of a reconstructed predella and altarpiece ensure that Fra Angelico will appeal to the specialised reader as well as students and those with an interest in art history.\u003c/p\u003e","webReviews":"\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Fra Angelico's work - unlike most old master art - was much admired by the post-war American master of spiritual abstraction Mark Rothko. Looking at the plates in this thorough and scholarly new study, with their combination of radiant-colour and pared-down simplicity, you can see why.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;[A] very well-written book... [Ahl] nimbly summarises the history of Florence in the opening years of the fifteenth century as a context for Fra Angelico's career, and the historiographic legacy of the artist, primarily in literature, from the fifteenth though the nineteenth centuries. These overviews condense the welter of miscellaneous information other writers have brought to bear on these topics and translate with finely balanced judgment into 'user-friendly' form for the modern general-interest reader. The other great strength of this monograph is Ahl's care in elaborating the devotional content and significance of each painting by Fra Angelico that she discusses... The excurses offered here are models of concision, neither too detailed nor patronisingly summary.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eBurlington Magazine\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;A well-informed and scholarly text... A good read... Strong on the cultural, religious and historical context of Angelico's life and work \u0026#8230; a good overall survey.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eThe Art Book\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;A new monograph of extraordinary breadth, careful scholarship and unparalleled beauty... Ahl's goal is to achieve a better understanding of the friar-artist by placing him in the context of those who influenced him, his contemporaries, and his deep Dominican spirituality... Unlike many previous scholars, [...] Ahl recognizes the obvious: this painter was a devout man of the church... [Ahl] engag[es] the reader with her clear, flowing prose... This superb monograph is the definitive study to date on Fra Angelico... In the exquisite photographic reproductions, colors appear rich, gold glistens, and delicate textures in gilded backgrounds are discernible. \u0026#8230; Bound in sumptuous lavender silk, the book is accessible to the interested reader, valuable to the scholar, and a must for any library.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eMary Baldwin College [Staunton, VA], Sixteenth Century Journal\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","webShortDescription":"A sumptuous new monograph of the celebrated early Renaissance artist."}