Guido di Pietro , in religion FRA Giovanni , known as FRA Angelico (the Brother of the Angels) or sometimes the painter of the Angels (Vicchio di Mugello 1387 - Rome February 18th 1455) is a painter Tuscan (Italy) Quattrocento. FRA Angelico was béatifié by Jean-Paul II in 1984.
Dominican monk , it sought to associate the pictorial principles of the Rebirth - constructions in prospect and representation of the human figure - with the old medieval values of art: its didactic function and the mystical value of the light.
Biography
Guido di Pietro was born in 1387 in the small town from Vicchio di Mugello from unknown parents and was baptized Guido or Guidolino.
FRA Angelico enters the order of the " Dominican observants" , a branch Dominican E minority, in which is observed the original rule of saint Dominique, who requires absolute poverty and asceticism. Since 1423 (year when it paints a crucifix for the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova), it is named " Jean brother of the brothers of Saint Dominique de Fiesole" , and it is only after its death that it is called Beato Angelico ( Bienheureux Angelico). It is Giorgio Vasari, in its Vies which adds to its name the adjective Beato (and names precisely it Fra' Giovanni da Fiesole ), used before by FRA Domenico da Corella and by Cristoforo Landino (doubt about the translation: usato in precedenza da FRA Domenico da Corella E da Cristoforo Landino ) .
The first works
Its artistic education proceeds with Florence at the time of Lorenzo Monaco and Gherardo Starnina. First, it takes again the use of accentuated and not very natural colors, but also a very strong light which cancels the shades and takes part in the mysticism of the crowned scenes, topics which one finds in his production of miniatures and his first compositions.In 1417 it is named in documents " Guido di Pietro the peintre" .
In 1418, little before pronouncing its wishes in the convent of Dominique Saint to Fiesole, it carries out the decoration of a furnace bridge for the Gherardini vault of the church Saint Stephan in Florence.
The Triptyque of Saint Pierre Martyrdom , ordered by the sisters of Saint Pierre Martyrdom is gone back to approximately 1425.
Between 1428 and 1430 it paints the first of the three compositions for the retable of the furnace bridge of the church of Dominique Saint in Fiesole: the Pala di Fiesole . This work was altered by Lorenzo di Credi. Are of him architecture, the baldachin and the enlarging of the ground.
Between 1430 and 1433 it carries out the Last Judgment , still very influenced by the style of Lorenzo Monaco, but the rate/rhythm of the plans shows an interest incipient for the organization in prospect for space. In 1430 it paints the Annunciation (museum of Prado), with five stories of the Virgin in the Prédelle (second table for the church of Dominique Saint in Fiesole). A work where novel methods inspired by Masaccio appear. For the first time is used a diaphanous light which wraps the composition, exciting the colors and the plastic masses of the figures, and unifies the image.
In July 1433, the corporation of the Weavers of flax ( Linaioli ) of Florence entrusts to FRA Angelico the realization of a painting of the Virgin for a gate vault.
Between 1434 and 1435 it paints a Tempera on wood, the imposition of the name with saint Jean-Baptiste , started from prédelle not identified. The scene is placed in a court built with a prospect for an extreme precision and using a gate used like perspective funnel.
As from 1440, Cosme de Médicis entrusts to him the decoration of the Couvent San Marco, parts and individual cells of the monks, work which directs his/her friend Antonin of Florence, archbishop of the city.
Some works of FRA Angelico in San Marco
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