Feast of Blessed Fra Angelico (d 1455), Dominican precursor of the Florentine Renaissance. Amazing photos show his frescos in their original setting in the Monastery of San Marco.
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Nearly all of them include Dominican saints—dressed identically to the friars who would be viewing the paintings. The viewer was to place himself imaginatively in the scene before him and identify with the attitude of devotion as displayed in the painting itself.
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For Fra Angelico the religious life was a life lived in the presence of Christ and emotionally engaged in the ongoing drama of redemption. It was this mystical vision that was communicated in his paintings with such angelic purity.
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Robert, what is the name of the monastery? Is it in Florence?
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