How Fra Angelico and Signorelli Saw the End of the World
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: November 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780271021409
Subjects: Early Renaissance (c 1400-1500); Fresco; Individual artists; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Criticism; European; Subjects & Themes - Religious; Angelico; Signorelli, Luca; History - General; 1441?-1523; 1441?-1523.; Angelico,; Criticism and interpretation; End of the world; Italy; Judgment Day in art; Mural painting and decoration, Renaissance; Orvieto; Signorelli, Luca,
Description: "How Fra Angelico and Signorelli Saw the End of the World examines every element in the Cappella Nuova's architecture and complex decoration, which not only represents the coming of the Antichrist, the end of the world, and the Last Judgment but also, on a high dado, features portraits of Dante and other poets, scenes from their texts, and sinuous grotesque ornament.

Although Dante's likeness has long been recognized, Creighton Gilbert is the first scholar to establish that his great epic, The Divine Comedy, exerted a profound influence on the Chapel's iconographic program."--BOOK JACKET.