Italian Painted Icon Madonna & Child After Fra Angelico Linaioli Tabernacle 16"

Description

Italian (catholic) Icon of Madonna & Child After Fra Angelico's 'Linaioli Tabernacle'. Painted on board and marked along verso.

Fra Angelico combined the influence of the elegantly decorative International Gothic style of Gentile da Fabriano with the more realistic style of such Renaissance masters as the painter Masaccio and the sculptors Donatello and Ghiberti, all of whom worked in Florence. Angelico was also aware of the theories of perspective proposed by Leon Battista Alberti. Angelico's representation of devout facial expressions and his use of colour to heighten emotion are particularly effective. His skill in creating monumental figures, representing motion, and suggesting deep space through the use of linear perspective, especially in the Roman frescoes, mark him as one of the foremost painters of the Renaissance.

Condition

Very Good, Gently Used

Dimensions

15.75" x 2" x 8.5"