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The Monk's Masterpieces: Fra Angelico's Moving Art in a Groundbreaking Exhibit |
| Section: THE ARTS / ART |
| Author: Joanna Shaw-Eagle |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2006 |
| Size: 725 Words, 5,235 Characters |
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Although most famous for his 1438 frescoes in Florence's convent of San Marco, the peasant-born Dominican monk Fra Angelico (a.k.a. Guido di Pietro and Fra Giovanni da Fiesole) also created numerous altarpieces and tempera-on-panel paintings for private, Dominican-associated patrons. Fortunately undeterred by the impossibility of exhibiting even a few of the frescoes from the convent's 58 dormitory cells--generally recognized as among the world's great art masterpieces--or moving the painter-monk's larger altarpieces, ...
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