In Search of Fra Angelico: The Artist as a Young Man

Laurence Kanter
Friday, February 2, 2018, 1:30 pm
Over the past two decades, discoveries made in museums around the world have led to a new understanding of the early career of one of the towering masters of the Italian Renaissance, the artist known today as Fra Angelico. Now, conservation work at the Yale University Art Gallery has uncovered what may be Angelico’s first documented painting-long thought to have been lost-and opens new perspectives on the key role he played in the opening years of the 15th century in the formation of a modern style of naturalistic representation. Laurence Kanter, Chief Curator and the Lionel Goldfrank III Curator of European Art, addresses the early work of Fra Angelico.
Generously sponsored by the John Walsh Lecture and Education Fund.