Transcript of Fra Angelico & Fra Filippo Lippi By: Sharon J. and Christine T.
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- Fra Angelico & Fra Filippo Lippi By: Sharon J. and
Christine T.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Fra Angelico His earliest paintings were probably manuscript
illumination. Fra Angelicos brother, who entered monastic life with
him, was a scribe.
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- Fra Angelico At Fiesoli he produced his first known works. An
altarpiece for the high altar. The Annunciateion (now in the
Prado).
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Fra Angelico H.W. Janson describes Fra Angelicos art as
something of a paradox. The deeply reverential attitude presents an
admixture of traditional Gothic piety and Renaissance grandeur
bestilled by contemplative calm.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Fra Angelico Other hugely important works adorn the
altarpiece.
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- Fra Angelico His fame brought him commissions from two popes.
Eugenius and Nicholas.
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- Fra Angelico Other important works were commissioned for the
cathedral of Orvieto, in Italy.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- Fra Filippo Lippi As 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.
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- Fra Filippo Lippi - Not all Florentine painting during the mid
15 th 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
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- Fra Filippo Lippi Madonna and Child with Angles, c. 1455,
tempera on wood Fra Filippo Lippi/ linear style/ use of models
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- Fra Filippo Lippi. Madonna Adoring Christ, 1450s