New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London, Yale University Press, Date: 2005. With contributions by Magnolia Scudieri, et al. xii, 336p., colored and b/w illus., dj, quarto format. 2005. Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London, Yale University Press ISBN 1588391744 9781588391742 [US]

ISBN10: 1588391744, ISBN13: 9781588391742, [publisher: Yale University Press] Hardcover 348 Seiten, 312 Abbildungen, 257 farbig. Sehr gutes Exemplar. / Very good copy. - This volume has been published in conjunction with the exhibition "Fra Angelico" held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 26, 2005-January 29, 2006. / „In commemoration of the five hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the death of Fra Angelico (about 1395-1455), one of the foremost artists of the Italian Renaissance, The Metropolitan Museum of Art set out to reexamine his career and to establish a more histori- cally accurate profile of the innovative, extraordinarily gifted "angelic friar," in order to dispel the myths and legends that have eclipsed the details of his life. New documentary research and standards for attributions, developed over the last three decades, provided the impetus for this reappraisal-only the second major exhibition of Fra Angelico's art ever held, and the first since 1955. Comprising about seventy-five paintings, drawings, and manuscript illuminations ascribed to Angelico and spanning the period from 1410 to 1455, as well as about forty works by his collaborators, this pre- sentation includes several newly discovered paintings and a number of new proposals for reconstructions of important, dispersed altarpieces. Additionally, drawings by the master are analyzed in terms of their original function and in the context of discussion of ...
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