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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...
...down in the chronicle of the San Domenico convent at Fiesole are the simple facts about Fra Angelico: in 1407 "Fr. Joannes Petri de Mugello iuxta Vichium, optimus pictor, qui multas tabulas et parietes in diversis locis pinxit, accepit habitum clericorum in hoc conventu . . . et in sequenti anno fecit professionem."* To this, Vasari adds only that Fra Giovanni's name was Guido, that he was born in 1387, and entered the Dominican monastery "chiefly for the sake of his soul and for his peace of mind...
...vineyard at the foot of the hill of Fiesole outside Florence, came at a crucial time. A wave of reform was sweeping the Dominican monasteries of Italy; revived humanism, based on study of recently rediscovered classic manuscripts, was threatening the church with a new kind of paganism. The new convent of San Domenico, then less than two years in existence, was a spearhead of the reformed order of Dominican Observants. Its leader, the eloquent Fra Dominici, raised up against the New Learning the stern teachings of the church fathers: "Christ is our only guide to happiness . . . our father, our leader...
...herself has told her own story, she was orphaned at six (both parents died of influenza in 1918), passed around among relatives, and sent to a convent in Seattle. She went East to Vassar (class of 1933), became a Phi Beta Kappa in her senior year, and married successively an actor called Harold Johnsrud (divorce), Edmund Wilson, the novelist-critic (divorce, one son, now 16), and finally Bowden Broadwater, an occasional writer some years her junior...
...Seattle: there were Protestants and a Jew (a maternal grandmother) in her family. She was no ugly duckling, but seemed to think so. She grew her famous wide smile, which is now, according to a friend, "a sort of tic," but could not charm rich, silly and beautiful convent classmates. They called her "Cye" and it was torture. It must mean something terrible, she thought, and it was not until many years later on a Manhattan street that it occurred to her that it meant "Clever Young...