Fra Angelico by Stephan Beissel

Author:Stephan Beissel [Beissel, Stephan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783107599
Publisher: Parkstone International

Fra Angelico was exceptionally familiar with the Bible, and had read mystical texts in the spirit of the Preaching Friars. Among the monks from whom he received his instruction were men of great intellect, filled with knowledge of the Holy Scriptures and the history of the Church.

Angelico’s imposing painting in the chapter room of San Marco is evidence of this fact. Year in and year out, the mysteries of the Religion were brought before his soul by the regular cycle of the Church’s feast days, whose profound sense he must have grasped with piety in the intimacy of his heart. Abundant sources of fertile and suggestive thinking were available to him in Saint Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae, in the pious books, in the sermons of his prior Saint Antoninus, and the other orators of his Order, and finally, in his own meditations. These sources formed an inexhaustible well from which it was easy for Angelico to draw his paintbrush’s inspiration, lending reality to his art. He set to work after saturating himself in this inspiration.

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