Fra Angelico and the Rise of the Florentine Renaissance

Joe Lloyd | Studio International | 23rd August 2019

Gothic art was elegant but static. Although trained in that tradition, Angelico and others (notably Giotto) gravitated to newer ideas – about colour, perspective and, above all, on what it is to be human. Angelico’s Annunciation altarpiece reflects this transition – “medieval flatness gives way to Renaissance depth … his marriage between medieval and modern remains one of the peaks of European painting.”