A lecture by Carl Strehlke
Who is Fra Angelico? The great Italian novelist Elsa Morante in an enduring essay on Fra Angelico asked whether the Dominican friar painter was a revolutionary. She had trouble disassociating his religious subject matter and pious reputation from the man and the artist. Strehlke's lecture will focus on three paintings by Angelico that will show that he was a man of his time who worked not only for his own religious Order but also the Florentine elite who saw in him the leading painter of the city.
Carl Brandon Strehlke, curator emeritus of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, organized the exhibition on Fra Angelico at the Prado in Madrid in 2019. He has also curated and co-curated exhibitions on Renaissance art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musée du Petit Palais, Musée Jacquemart-André, and in San Giovanni Valdarno. He has written books on Masaccio, Masolino, Fra Angelico and Pontormo and Bronzino and catalogues of the collections at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Villa I Tatti.
If you are in Florence and would like to attend the lecture in person at the British Institute Library, please register here or send an email to bif@britishinstitute.it
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