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Dominican friar Angelico was considered in his lifetime the greatest Italian painter of his generation. In an engaging new appraisal, art historian John Spike discusses how Angelico's painting reveals important artistic innovations. An extensive essay on the artist's life and work combined with large color plates make this volume an important reassessment of this important Florentine Renaissance painter. << 220 illustrations; 70 in full color.

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John T. Spike, who received his doctorate in art history from Harvard University in 1979, is a noted authority on Italian paintings and drawings of the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. He is the author of eight books, most recently Caravaggio and Fra Angelico, both by Abbeville Press. Spike has served as the curator of international loan exhibitions of Italian art for major museums in Italy, Germany, and the United States. General Editor of The Illustrated Bartsch, he lives in Florence and is a frequent contributor to art journals, especially FMR and Storia dell'Arte.

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