Word: angelicos
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Indian sculptors were expected to identify with their art in a mastered state of trance. The image would then be the result of the sculptor's ecstasy: his trance guided his chisel. All this seemed strange to Western man-unless he happened to recall that Fra Angelico knelt in prayer before he could begin his lustrous panels...
...TUSCANY-Duveen, 18 East 79th St. A sumptuous show including a Fra Angelico Madonna and Child and a Masolino Annunciation that have never been shown in the U.S. Also works by Giotto, Botticelli, Delia Robbia, Francesco di Giorgio. All but the Giottos are for sale. Through...
...TUSCANY-Duveen, 18 East 79th St. A sumptuous show including a Fra Angelico Madonna and Child and a Masolino Annunciation that have never been shown in the U.S. Also works by Giotto, Botticelli, Delia Robbia, Francesco di Giorgio. All but the Giottos are for sale. Through...
...prostitutes, troop maneuvers and barefoot peasantry. Then they turned to the subject matter that early French impressionism grew fat upon: landscapes populated by rocks and sheep, woodsmen warming in a shack, wheat harvests, the faces of peasants-all done in the subdued tonalities of their dulcet quattrocento ancestors, Fra Angelico, Domenico Veneziano and Piero della Francesca. This week in Manhattan, a show of 92 works goes on view at the American Federation of Arts Gallery; to many viewers, it will be a pleasant new-found island (see color) in the apparently empty seas of Italian art between the baroque period...
...jammed the outdoor cafes for hot coffee and rich pastry, while their feet froze and their necks blistered from the heat of overhanging radiant coils. Along the broad Kurfürstendamm, young art students collected rent money by drawing colored chalk reproductions of the madonnas of Giorgione and Fra Angelico. In the fairyland of the big department stores, late shoppers were snapping up collapsible 6-ft. Christmas trees, black lace nightgowns from Paris, Guardsmen neckties from London. Retsina wine from Greece...