Fra Angelico: Madonna and Saints, 1440
Background:
Commissioned by Cosimo de Medici for San Marco Altarpiece, Florence
Contains the Medici coat of arms (yellow with red dots)
Kneeling Medici patron saints- Cosmas and Damian
The Frame no longer survives
Style:
Continuous, illusionistic space;
Systematic perspective
Grouped figures
Centralized, multi-figural composition (used a lot in latter part of 1400s)
New Florentine Renaissance style.
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