Fra Angelico.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Fra Angelico. Metropolitan Museum of Art, dist. by Yale Univ. 2005. 336p. ed. by Laurence Kanter & Pia Palladino. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-300-11140-1. $65. FINE ARTS

Edited by curators Kanter and Palladino, this catalog accompanies an exhibition of the work of 15th-century Renaissance artist Fra Angelico that recently showed at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Kanter and Palladino take a chronological approach to the artist's work, with chapter essays focusing on the various periods of his career. Angelico's early altarpieces were influenced by the decorative international Gothic style of painter Gentile da Fabriano, yet also by the more progressive artist …