Fra Angelico
1395-1455
Florentine Painter and Illuminator of The Early Renaissance
Influences - Giotto di Bondone, Paolo Uccello, Domenico Veneziano
Cause of Death - leprosy
Fra Angelico was a Dominican friar as well as one of the greatest Early Renaissance painters of all time. He was drawn to art and God from a young age and lived his life according to a strict religious faith. Rising at daybreak and breakfasting on cold porridge and sour milk, he often worked twelve hours a day on his masterpieces. In the evening he would sup on watered down stew and spend hours kneeling in payer. His life was completely dedicated to painting and the church. According to Medieval historian, Julia De Wolf Addison, "Religious feeling in works of art is an almost indefinable thing, but one which is felt in all true emanations of the conscientious spirit of devotion. Fra Angelico had a special gift for expressing in his artistic creations is own spiritual life; the very qualities for which he stood, his virtues and his errors,—purity, unquestioning faith in the miraculous, narrowness of creed, and gentle and adoring humility,—all these elements are seen to completeness in his decorative pictures. Perhaps this is because he really lived up to his principles. One of his favourite sayings was "He who occupies himself with the things of Christ, must ever dwell with Christ."
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Hendrik van Loon, published 1921
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