Fra Angelico: Dissemblance and Figuration.

Renaissance Quarterly | December 22, 1997| | Copyright

Fra Angelico's mural paintings in the Dominican priory of San Marco in Florence are the subject of this study. Finding art history's traditional categories to be misleading, Didi-Huberman turns to semiotics as the conceptual tool that enables him "to shore up the imperiled historical imagination" and recover the "universe of thought" inhabited by the community of monks instrumental in the creation and reception of these paintings. Focusing on the Noli me tangere, the Madonna with Eight Saints, and the Annunciation, he reveals their multivalent significance, treating the ...

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