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Title: A history of painting... / with a preface by Frank Brangwyn
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Macfall, Haldane, 1860-1928
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: Boston : Dana Estes and Co.
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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I 4 o o CHAPTER VIIOF THE TALE OF THE SAINTLY DOMINICAN FRA ANGELICO 1387 - H55The saintly Dominican, Fra Angelico of Fiesole, born in OF THE 1387, and dying in 1455, covered by his working life the TALE OF first half century of the fourteen-hundreds. Dominican THE though he was, the gentle and pious art of Fra Angelico SAINTLY 1 1 r 1 • 1 ... , ° r DOMINI- was superbly fitted to guide pamtmg mto the utterance 01 the gentle Christianity preached by St. Francis of Assisi. The simple joys of belief, the very sense of happiness there is in the suff^ering for ones faith, the exquisite comfort of being of the chosen, these emotions and sensations found their artist in Fra Angelico. His was a cloistral soul, rapt in the mystic beatitude of reverent and undisturbed faith in his creed. He accounted it sin to paint from the nude ; and whilst the whole artistry of his age was bent on realism, Angelico sought only to express the soul of man. Tis true that his genius is not without insipidity,

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