Word: angelico
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...spectacular result of this collaboration between art and science will be seen for the first time in seven years this summer. Like many other frescoes, Fra Angelico's Crucifixion, in the chapter house of the cloisters of San Marco (see color page), was suffering from a chronic problem that predated the flood: a pockmarked rash, resulting from crystallization within the plaster...
...thousands of tiny craters were filled in with water-soluble paint-purposely duller in tone than the original hues, so that the restoration would be distinguishable to the trained eye. Exulted Dini last month, after nearly six years' work in San Marco: "Look how Fra Angelico's colors have come forth again. They are so much purer, so much more brilliant...
Other spoils of Berenson's Italian conquests include Raphael's Pieta and a portrait of a Roman Count, a Guardi scene of Venice, Botticelli's Madonna and Child, Giotto's Jesus, Fra Angelico's Assumption, etc. Few museums equal the Gardner's extensive collection of Italian masters. But Berenson was not to stop at conquering Italian walls; sensing Mrs. Jack's interest in a bargain, he induced her to buy Durer, Holbein, Rubens, and Rembrandt...
...civilization that abounded in images of the Madonna, Gabriel recurred insistently, whether as the impassive, rhythmically contorted enamel figure on the 11th century cover of the Ariberto breviary in Milan or the rainbow-winged presence, solid as a Doric column, who confronts a submissive Mary in Fra Angelico's Annunciation...
...known of Meister Francke's life. He is believed to have been a Dominican friar who came from the Geldern region of The Netherlands and studied or worked in Paris or Burgundy before settling in Hamburg. Probably he spent his life in monkish seclusion (like his contemporary Fra Angelico in Italy), painting for the glory of God and the benefit of his order while the fame of his brush spread throughout the Hanseatic trading towns of Eastern Europe to the farthest reaches of the Baltic. Commissions came in to his monastery from as far away as Estonia and Finland...