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The monk's masterpieces; Fra Angelico's moving art in groundbreaking exhibit.(ARTS & CULTURE)(ART)
; ...Dominican monk Fra Angelico (aka Guido di Pietro and Fra Giovanni da Fiesole) also created numerous altarpieces and tempera-on-panel...Order part of the High Altarpiece from San Domenico, Fiesole. Mixing Fra Angelico's works with those of his followers...
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Anniversaries
; ...and historian, 1608; Ernst Mach, physicist, 1838; Andre Breton, poet and art critic, 1896. Deaths: Fra Angelico (Giovanni da Fiesole), painter, 1455; Martin Luther, Protestant reformer, 1546; Michelangelo Buonarroti, artist, 1564; James John Corbett...
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AMAZING GRACE
; ...about 1417. As Fra Giovanni, he held a number of...order's convent in Fiesole. His closeness to Pope...Nicholas V, for whom Fra Giovanni would paint some of...Dominican poet Fra Domenico da Corella first remarked...angelic" quality of Fra Giovanni's painting and attributed...Corella ...
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Gaining perspective: Fra Angelico at the met.(religous art)
; ...order at San Domenico in Fiesole, where he was known as Fra Giovanni da Fiesole. (He later became known...church of San Domenico in Fiesole. Its majestic central panel...angels and saints, remains in Fiesole, but the Met's show includes...
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Portrait of the artists
; ...attributed to the circle of Desiderio da Settignano. Probably a reliquary...mesmering picture: Antonello da Messina's 'Portrait of a Man...by the gentle fierceness of Giovanni Bellini's 'Doge Leonardo Loredan...Strozzi, a sculpture by Mino da Fiesole, makes a challenging and ...
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A French king and a magic ring: the Girolami and a relic of St. Zenobius in Renaissance Florence *.
; ...Florence, Francesco Silvestro da Cingoli, presided over the exhumation...According to the chronicler Giovanni Villani, the Florentine archbishop...and the bishops of Spoleto and Fiesole assisted Cingoli in recovering...the cathedral during Francesco da Cingoli's tenure as bishop...18) In the past, ...
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Take a break from sightseeing to bike, drink, cook in 3 Italian cities.(The Seattle Times)
; ...ride, the first three miles uphill to Fiesole, a fifth-century Etruscan hill town above...countryside. It's true that the Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio once lived here, as did Mark Twain and Leonardo da Vinci, but we'd sworn off history for...is done, he assured us when we reached Fiesole ...
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Take a break from sightseeing to bike, drink, cook in 3 Italian cities.
; ...ride, the first three miles uphill to Fiesole, a fifth-century Etruscan hill town above...countryside. It's true that the Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio once lived here, as did Mark Twain and Leonardo da Vinci, but we'd sworn off history for...is done, he assured us when we reached Fiesole ...
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Birthdays
; ...industrialist and philanthropist, 1795; Andre Breton, Surrealist poet and art critic, 1896. Deaths: Fra Angelico (Giovanni da Fiesole), painter, 1455; Cornelius Heinrich Agrippa (von Nettesheim), scholar and astrologer, 1535; Martin Luther, Protestant...
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Richard Howard, Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963-2003.(Paper Trail: Selected Prose, 1965-2003)(Book Review)
; ...for the arts. For music, the portraits of Offenbach, Rossini, and Wagner; for painting, a series of ekphrases, Giovanni Da Fiesole on the Sublime, Purgatory, Formerly Paradise, three of the Family Values sequence, Dorothea Tanning's Cousins...
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