The artist friar who strove for the light of redemption -- Inser : "To portray and holy things, a man must have a holy and pious mins" (Vasari's life of Fra Angelico) -- From the litany with saints to the Aristotelian unities of time and space : Fra Angelico's pictures of the Madonna with Saints -- Inset : The altarpiece at fiesole and its re-working : assessment and differences -- Inset: The Linaiuoli tabernacle of 1433 : Fra Angelico's relationship to the sculptors and architects of his time -- Inset : Italy and the North : The Lamentation over the Dead Christ and its influence on Rogier van der Weyden -- The Altapieces with religious "stories" -- The Frescoes in San Marco : strict observance and the sensation of light -- Cappella Niccolina for Nicholas V -- The Armadio degli Argenti : Narration in Miniature.
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