Sujet

Fra Angelico, by Walter Duncan,...exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, 1874. Creator: Unknown.

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Fra Angelico, by Walter Duncan, in the exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, 1874. 'Modern artists are...fond of subjects commemorative of the early masters of their craft, and among such early masters there is no figure more interesting than that of the last representative of the art of the fourteenth century, the Beato Fra, or Beatified Brother, Giovanni da Fiesole, or, as he is more generally styled, Fra Angelico, the Angelic Brother. His works were conceived and executed in the most exalted spirit of piety, and his whole life seems to have been in accord with his works...He is said to have always commenced his day's painting with prayer; to have been very frequently interrupted by tears when representing the Saviour's sufferings...to have never painted for money; to have regarded his pictures as the result of inspiration, therefore sacred, and, when once finished, not to be improved or retouched...He is depicted as engaged on a work of this class in the watercolour drawing by Mr. Walter Duncan (son of the well-known landscape and marine painter), which we have engraved. This drawing is one of those with which the young painter has made his debut upon his election as an Associate of the Old Water-Colour Society'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM25A33_092

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Format disponible

56,3Mo (6,5Mo) / 45,0cm x 31,4cm / 5312 x 3707 (300dpi)

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