Fra Angelico (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,History & Criticism
Fra Angelico (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series) Details
Book Description This beautiful book presents more than seventy paintings, drawings, and manuscript illuminations from all periods in the career of Fra Angelico, one of Renaissance Florence’s premier painters. Selected works by his assistants and followers are also included, along with a historically reliable biography of the "angelic friar" whose innovative works retain their inspirational power today. Read more About the Author Laurence Kanter is Curator-in-Charge of the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and is Lionel Goldfrank III Curator of Early European Art at the Yale University Art Gallery. Pia Palladino is Associate Curator of the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Magnolia Scudieri is Director of the Museo di San Marco in Florence. Carl Strehlke is Curator of the John G. Johnson Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Victor Schmidt is Professor of Fine Arts at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Anneke de Vries is an independent art historian. Read more
Reviews
Having expected to receive a book covering most of Fra Angelico's works I was quite satisfied as the book delivers its promise in this respect.The drawback is too SMALL size of many of the paintings. Using a magnifying glass to see details results in seeing images broken into printing dots that are pretty BIG. This way one has an impression of seeing paintings without really seeing them as they break down upon a closer look. This is an interesting phenomena in itself but it's decreasing the book's value as of a document. Of course this doesn't apply to all reproductions.Another matter is color quality, although this complaint could apply to the majority of art books.Suggestion:As for this reviewer art books published by an Italian house "Electa" reproduce colors to such a standard, other publisher should blush. "Electa" had published a book containing images from San Marco, that was also published in English. If you can put your paws on that one, you'll get my point, I hope.
