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...joyous quietude for the Middle Ages and the Renaissance as it is today, was a Dominican priest who died in Rome just 500 years ago this year. Even in his lifetime, his fellow monks felt the touch of his genius, awarded him the title of "The Angelic"-Fra Angelico...
Within the Cowl. For all his fame and popularity, there are few more elusive personalities in art than Fra Angelico. So completely did the man and artist live within his monastic cowl and robe, effacing himself within the disciplines of monastic life, that his early life, training and personality are only guesswork. He left no written record of his own. His biographer, Painter-Historian Giorgio Vasari, wrote nearly a century after Fra Angelico's death...
Vasari's principal sources were a pious Dominican eulogy and the memories of an ancient monk, Fra Eustachio. with whom Vasari often gossiped at Florence's convent of San Marco. From such accounts, Vasari drew the picture of Fra Angelico as a painter who "never took up his brush without first making a prayer. He never made a crucifix when the tears did not course down his cheeks . . ." Some later historians have doubted this picture of Fra Angelico in a state of religious ecstasy. The evidence in his painting points far more...
...celebrate the sooth anniversary of Fra Angelico's death, the Vatican last week opened a great exhibition of his paintings drawn from as far away as San Francisco. Pope Pius XII himself addressed a crowd of artists and officials at the opening of the show, took occasion to offer some philosophic thoughts on the nature and state...
...Angelico. the Pope pointed out. lived in an age of transition; it was as violent as the present. One of the first Renaissance masters, he invented and perfected new means to express eternal truths. His pictures, said the Pope, present an "ideal world whose atmosphere glows with peace, holiness, harmony and joy. whose reality is in the future when finally justice will triumph on the new earth and in the new heavens...