Fra Angelico
Ben Street | Gagosian Quarterly | 20th August 2025
Art history has viewed Angelico as an inspired cleric but separate from the art world. Yet he helped pioneer the new ideas that came to define Renaissance painting. His figures did not float in space but were positioned architecturally. They were not portrayed with “stylized perfection” but shown as people with personality and emotions. Angelico’s work thus had an ability to communicate the here and now. Says one writer “both profoundly sacred but also staggeringly beautiful”. Images are here.