Author: Pope-Hennessy, John Wyndham
Title: Fra Angelico
Description: London, Phaidon Press, 1974. Hardcover. Navy cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; color illustrated dust jacket with black lettering and black spine with white lettering, v, 242, pp, 64 unnumbered pages of plates; color illustrated frontispiece, profusely illustrated in bw and color. "This book illustrates all the autograph paintings of Fra Angelico. It differs from previous volumes on the artist, first in the fact that his main works, the frescoes at San marco in Florence and in the Vatican, as well as many panel paintings, have been rephotographed so as to offer a full impression of their subtle handling and simple forms; and secondly, in that his own paintings are separated from the mass of trivial, pietistic works which bear his name. Extensive use is made of detail photographs. the text examines the problem of Fra Angelico's enigmatic personality. Two catalogues summarize the information available on the paintings reproduced in the plates and on the other paintings ascribed to him, and an introduction explains the main characteristics of his work and the ideas which it expressed. From this reassessment, and from the plates, Fra Angelico emerges in his true stature as one of the greatest artists of the fifteenth century."- dust jacket. VG/VG- (light scuffing to boards mainly along edges, corners lightly bumped, pages are otherwise clean and clear. Dust jacket has light wear with bottom corner front flap clipped) .
Keywords: European Artists ; Fra Angelico ; ;
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Title: Fra Angelico
Description: London, Phaidon Press, 1974. Hardcover. Navy cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; color illustrated dust jacket with black lettering and black spine with white lettering, v, 242, pp, 64 unnumbered pages of plates; color illustrated frontispiece, profusely illustrated in bw and color. "This book illustrates all the autograph paintings of Fra Angelico. It differs from previous volumes on the artist, first in the fact that his main works, the frescoes at San marco in Florence and in the Vatican, as well as many panel paintings, have been rephotographed so as to offer a full impression of their subtle handling and simple forms; and secondly, in that his own paintings are separated from the mass of trivial, pietistic works which bear his name. Extensive use is made of detail photographs. the text examines the problem of Fra Angelico's enigmatic personality. Two catalogues summarize the information available on the paintings reproduced in the plates and on the other paintings ascribed to him, and an introduction explains the main characteristics of his work and the ideas which it expressed. From this reassessment, and from the plates, Fra Angelico emerges in his true stature as one of the greatest artists of the fifteenth century."- dust jacket. VG/VG- (light scuffing to boards mainly along edges, corners lightly bumped, pages are otherwise clean and clear. Dust jacket has light wear with bottom corner front flap clipped) .
Keywords: European Artists ; Fra Angelico ; ;
Price: US$ 65.00 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 179994
- Book number: 179994
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