The amount of Fra Angelico’s work you were able to peruse and all the pictures you took…almost stupefying! I’ve loved his work portraying St Francis, but the rest of this is gratifying to see. Thanks.
Pretty sure that's St. Thomas (star on chest) behind Lawrence, and the bloody-headed saint is definitely St. Peter Martyr. Not sure on the beardy one though.
I thought I recognized curly grey haired old St. Peter as the "One of the Apostles at the Last Supper, the fresco of the refectory." I enjoy your writing about art history and your artwork immensely. I too write and do art, but only a little bit of art, since I am able to publish my writings but hardly ever publish or sell my art. I too have been formulating a theory of sacred art, mostly in the back of my mind, and I think you are on the correct track when you write about the departure from iconography during the Renaissance. Artists became like rock stars, instead of mystical humble portrayers of invisible mysteries. And eventually the content and purpose of art was emptied of all religious association, and you have the blasphemous decadent art that inevitably followed. A huge subject. If I ever write up my ideas, I'm sure I'll reference yours. Keep up the great work!
The amount of Fra Angelico’s work you were able to peruse and all the pictures you took…almost stupefying! I’ve loved his work portraying St Francis, but the rest of this is gratifying to see. Thanks.
And this is just the frescoes in the dormitory. We haven't even got as far as the gallery yet.
Pretty sure that's St. Thomas (star on chest) behind Lawrence, and the bloody-headed saint is definitely St. Peter Martyr. Not sure on the beardy one though.
It's St John the Evangelist, St Thomas Aquinas, & St Peter of Verona who was martyred with an axe through his head.
I thought I recognized curly grey haired old St. Peter as the "One of the Apostles at the Last Supper, the fresco of the refectory." I enjoy your writing about art history and your artwork immensely. I too write and do art, but only a little bit of art, since I am able to publish my writings but hardly ever publish or sell my art. I too have been formulating a theory of sacred art, mostly in the back of my mind, and I think you are on the correct track when you write about the departure from iconography during the Renaissance. Artists became like rock stars, instead of mystical humble portrayers of invisible mysteries. And eventually the content and purpose of art was emptied of all religious association, and you have the blasphemous decadent art that inevitably followed. A huge subject. If I ever write up my ideas, I'm sure I'll reference yours. Keep up the great work!