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FRA ANGELICO AT SAN MARCO The San Marco monastery and Fra Angelico The San Marco monastery in Florence, Italy housed devotional art that aided in Dominican prayer and meditation. The building was originally a Sylvestrine monastery that was then taken over and expanded in 1438 by Cosimo De’Medici . He commissioned Fra Angelico , a devout Dominican Friar and innovative Florentine painter, to adorn the monastery. With the help of his fellow Dominican assistants, he painted forty-three Frescoes that acted as a spiritual guide to life in their community. These men were more inspired disciples than titled artists, yet created a sanctuary with great artistry, skillful composition and jewel-tone colors that formed peacefulness and shed an incredible luminescence. “Angelico, Fra.” WebMuseum, Paris. 28 Jan. 2007 Inspiration from the architecture The new spaciousness of the building, planned and sculpted by Michelozzo di Bortolommeo allowed Fra Angelico’s paintings to portray the sacredness of and his family played a predominant and pious role in these two. Aside from the categorical, was the altarpiece; Fra Angelico created the first high altar of the renaissance at San Marco to invoke a sense of cult and reverence. Kanter, Laurence, Pia Palladino, and Magnolia Scudieri. Fra Angelico. New York, NY: Yale University Press, 2005.Lloyd, Christopher. Fra Angelico. New York, NY: E. P. Dutton, 1979.McAuliffe, Michelle M, and Marsha W Black. Art & Artists through the Centuries. Westminster, CA: Teacher Created Materials, 2001.William Hood: "Angelico, Fra Giovanni da Fiesole; Guido di Piero da Mugello " Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, 28, 2006 , The big picture As the high altar continues tradition, the other pieces are innovative, acting as both mirrors and windows to students and educators alike. Fra Angelico transformed San Marco monastery to have a sense of devotion through art by projecting new ideas of artistic naturalism at a monumental scale. William Hood: "Angelico, Fra Giovanni da Fiesole; Guido di Piero da Mugello " Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, 28, 2006 , ICONOGRAPHY AND DEVOTION IN THE ART ''The San Marco Altarpiece'' In the ''San Marco Altarpiece'', Angelico painted the scene of the looks to Angelico’s Heaven towards the painting’s vanishing point drawing the viewer into the divine scene. Cosmos, on the left, holds a mirror-like gaze separating the painting and the viewer. Through the lines of perspective from Saint Dominic, the viewer is drawn into the heavenly scene, while Cosmos establishes the separation of the viewer and the Divine. |
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