{[Renaissance:] The Conversion of Fra Angelico}[26th April 1991]

[Redbook9:190][19910426:1153]{[Renaissance:] The Conversion of Fra Angelico}[26th April 1991]

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(I tend to fill in times of writing* less and less now, except for the first entry of the day)

‘At about the same date** Fra Angelico was commissioned to decorate the monks’ cells in S. Marco. The nature of the commission – traditional devotional images whose execution required assistants – apparently turned Fra Angelico towards the religious and didactic works that characterize the end of his career;*** e.g., the Capella di Nicolo V in the Vatican.’

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(I’m not sure how these differed from the earlier subjects, which I either don’t know of or haven’t seen.)

*[ie as here top right]

**(c[irca]1438-40[ce])

2048JG~1408[ce]

64A~1440[ce]

***cf VI.[[Redbook6:41-51)][19881128:2046]{Literary Circles}[28th November 1988]ff,] 41? (Literary Circles)

cf [[Redbook9:192][19910426:1153c]{Andrea de Castagno}[26th April 1991],] 192↓

**** – E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 25:345

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