The Great Masters—Fra Angelico: God, Nature and Art
Narrated by: Nicholas Brandon
(Kultur, circa 2000)

Running Time: 45 Minutes

Fra Angelico (c. 1400-55), an Italian painter of the early Renaissance, combined the life of a devout friar with that of an accomplished painter. He was called Angelico and Beato because the paintings he did were of calm, religious subjects and because of his extraordinary personal piety.

Originally named Guido di Pietro, Angelico was born in Vicchio, Tuscany. He entered a Dominican convent in Fiesole in 1418 and about 1425 became a friar using the name Giovanni da Fiescole. Alhtough his teacher is unknown, he apparently began his career as an illuminator of missals and other religious books.

In 1436 the Dominicans of Fiesole moved to the convent of San Marco in Florence, recently rebuilt by Michelozzo Angelico, sometimes aided by assistants, painted many frescoes for the cloister, chapter house, and entrances to the 20 cells on the upper corridors.

In 1445 Angelico was summoned to Rome by Pope Eugenius IV to paint frescoes for the now destroyed Chapel of the Sacrament in the Vatican. In 1447, with his pupil Benozzo Gozzoli, he painted frescoes for the cathedral in Orvieto. His last important works, frescoes for the chapel of Pop Nicholas in the Vatican, are Scenes from the Lives of Saints Stephen and Lawrence; they were probably painted from his designs by assistants. From 1449 to 1452 Angelico was prior of his convent in Fiesole. He died in the Dominican convent in Rome on March 18, 1455.

Angelico’s representation of devout facial expressions and his use of color to heighten emotion are particularly effective. His skill in creating monumental figures, representing motion, and suggesting deep space through the use of linear perspective, especially in the Roman frescoes, mark him as one of the foremost painters of the Renaissance.

THE GREAT MASTERS SERIES
Raphael #2121
Michelangelo #2122
Fra Angelico #2123
Piero della Francesca #2124
Caravaggio #2125
Tintoretto #2126
Van Dyck #2127
Strozzi #2128
8-Tape Box Set #2515

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