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Fra Angelico & Fra Filippo Lippi. By: Sharon J. and Christine T. Fra Angelico. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Fra Angelico &Fra Filippo Lippi
By: Sharon J. and Christine T.
Fra Angelico• “He was kind to other people and moderate, lived
chastely and far from the temptations of this world. He would often say that anyone practicing the art of painting needed a quiet and untroubled life, and that the man who portrayed the words of Christ should live with Christ.
Fra Angelico
• Fra Angelico was born Guidolino di Pietro, around 1395 in Vicchio di Mugello.
• He died in Rome in 1455.• He was a contemporary of
Brunelleschi, Donatello and Masaccio.
Fra Angelico• His work was a
product of his life as a monk.
• Painting was his vocation and his works were created to adorn churches and monasteries.
Fra Angelico
• His earliest paintings were probably manuscript illumination.
• Fra Angelico’s brother, who entered monastic life with him, was a scribe.
Fra Angelico• At Fiesoli he produced his
first known works.– An altarpiece for the high
altar.– The Annunciateion (now in
the Prado).
Fra Angelico• His use of perspective is still
in the Byzantine tradition of inverse perspective, placing the viewer as the point of view of the figures in the icon - instead of the other way around. The intent is to place the viewer in divine, not human, space.
Fra Angelico• In another
work, his Deposition, we see a painting that owes much to Masaccio in terms of its presentation of subjects and space.
Fra AngelicoH.W. Janson describes Fra Angelico’s art as “…something of a paradox. The deeply reverential attitude presents an admixture of traditional Gothic piety and Renaissance grandeur bestilled by contemplative calm.”
Fra Angelico
• His St. Nicholas of Bari depicts two miracles of the saint, who appears twice – as a saint in the sky above and thanking a merchant in the bottom left of the painting.
Fra Angelico• In 1436 he and his
Dominican brothers moved to San Marco, in Florence.
• Here, some of his most famous works adorn the monks’ cells.
• These were intended to assist in prayer.
Fra Angelico
• Other hugely important works adorn the altarpiece.
Fra Angelico
• His fame brought him commissions from two popes. – Eugenius and Nicholas.
Fra Angelico
• Other important works were commissioned for the cathedral of Orvieto, in Italy.
Fra Angelico• This quiet, good man, was
beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1984.
• The Roman Catholic Church celebrates February 18 as his feast day – commemorating his death in 1455.
Fra Filippo Lippi‘Fra Filippo Lippi was
gracious and ornate and exceedingly
skilful; he was very good at compositions
and at variety, at coloring, relief, and
in ornaments of every kind', wrote
Cristoforo Landino in 1480; his comment
remains a valid assessment of Fra
Filippo's style
Fra Filippo LippiAs an orphan
Filippo was sent to the Carmelite
friary in Florence. But he was not
temperamentally suited to be a
friar. His life is a tale of lawsuits,
complaints, broken promises
and scandal.
Fra Filippo Lippi- Not all Florentine painting during the mid
15th century was of a religious nature, during this time portraiture comes into its own as a major form of artistic expression.
- One of the most famous of these portrait artists was Lippi
- His painting called Portrait of a Woman and Man 1435-1445 (left) is one of the earliest surviving double portraits of the Renaissance
- The exact reason for the painting still remains a mystery
Fra Filippo Lippi Madonna and Child with Angles, c. 1455, tempera
on wood
Fra Filippo Lippi/ linear style/ use of models
Fra Filippo Lippi.
Madonna Adoring Christ,
1450s