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Fra Angelico (1395/1400–1455)
The artist and Dominican friar posthumously called Fra Angelico was known for most of his life as Fra Giovanni, the name he chose when he joined the convent of San Domenico in Fiesole. Not long after his death in 1455, he was praised as "the Angelic Painter," elevating him to the status of the great Dominican theologian Thomas Aquinas, called the "Angelic Doctor." His life and work have been celebrated for centuries, yet only recently has Fra Angelico's fundamental importance in the development of European painting been fully appreciated. Paralleling the achievements of the slightly younger Masaccio (1401–ca. 1428), Fra Angelico pioneered many of the stylistic trends that distinguish the early Renaissance, including the rational treatment of pictorial space and the volumetric modeling of forms with light and shadow. At every stage of his career, in fact, Fra Angelico remained at the forefront of artistic innovation in Florence.
Fra Angelico (1395/1400–1455) | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art his life and work have been celebrated for centuries, yet only recently has fra angelico's fundamental importance in the development of european painting been fully appreciated. paralleling the achievements of the slightly younger masaccio (1401–ca. 1428), fra angelico pioneered many of the stylistic trends that distinguish the early renaissance, including the rational treatment of pictorial space and the volumetric modeling of forms with light and shadow.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/fang/hd_fang.htm [2018 words]
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National Gallery of Art, Masaccio (Getty Museum) masaccio b. 1401 castel san giovanni, italy, d. 1428 rome painter italian masaccio, born tommaso di ser giovanni di mone, received his nickname, which may translate as "sloppy tom," from the sixteenth-century biographer of artists giorgio vasari.
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=857 [205 words]
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement ¦ Fra Filippo Lippi ¦ Highlights ¦ European Paintings ¦ Collection Database and markings inscribed (edge of woman's cuff): lealt[a] (loyalty) provenance rev. john sanford, nynehead court, wellington, somerset, and london (bought in florence; about 1829–d. 1855; inv., n.d., no. 167, as by masaccio; cat., 1847, no. 1; bequeathed to methuen); frederick henry paul, 2nd baron methuen, corsham court, chippenham, wiltshire (1855–83; sold to marquand); henry g. marquand, new york (1883–89) exhibition history london.
http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/all/portrait_of_a_woman_with_a_man_at_a_casement_fra_filippo_l [5798 words]
Renaissance art sandro botticelli, the birth of venus, 1486 renaissance art art of the european renaissance period, emerging around 1400 in italy, in parallel with developments in philosophy, literature, music and science.
http://www.kunstbus.com/locate/renaissance+art [470 words]
National Gallery of Art, Madonna and Child 290 on view from the tour: the early renaissance in florence object 5 of 8 orphaned at a young age, filippo lippi was raised in the carmelite convent of santa maria in florence, where he would undoubtedly have seen masaccio and masolino at work on the frescoes in the brancacci chapel. he took vows himself, but proved to be wholly unsuited to religious life. his name surfaces often in court documents. tried for embezzlement (
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg4/gg4-433.html [302 words]
National Gallery of Art, NGA - The Early Renaissance in Florence works by classical authors, lost to the west for centuries, were rediscovered, and with them a new, humanistic outlook that placed man and human achievement at the center of all things. brunelleschi, donatello, and masaccio humanists in florence styled their city a "new athens." it was a fiercely mercantile state, struggling to remain independent and committed to republican virtues though controlled in practice by the powerful medici family.
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg4/gg4-over2.html [524 words]
National Gallery of Art, Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saint Peter and Saint Paul he was, in fact, the only sienese painter of his day to receive commissions from florentine clients. this small panel is one of the first in siena to reflect the innovations of the florentine painter masaccio . masaccio used light and perspective to give his figures weight and three-dimensionality, a sense of being in a space rather than simply on a painted surface. domenico lit his scene from a source that comes strongly and consistently from the upper left,
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg8/gg8-46102.html [287 words]