Christ, with his head inclined to the right, is looking down at st. Dominic, who kneels below, clasping the cross, and gazing up in awe and adoration at his suffering master. Beautiful in sentiment, admirable in design, it is yet more admirable in execution. The painter shows here a power of rendering the nude that has won for his work the ungrudging praise of some of the most modern of modern masters of his own craft, men who in their convictions and habits of thought are removed as far as possible from the friar of san marco, and who, moreover, in their estimate of a work of art, do not regard its theological or historical significance. It has suited some persons of extreme theological or anti-theological prejudices, who have little real love of art and little power of observation, to repeat in a parrot-like way the assertion that fra angelico was weak in his rendering of the nude. Douglas, langton - fra angelico. Object Type: painting. Genre: religious art. Date: circa 1437-1446. Dimensions: height: 340 cm (11.1 ft) ; width: 155 cm (61 in). Medium: fresco. Depicted People: Jesus, Saint Dominic. Collection: Museum of San Marco. Series Title: Frescos by Fra Angelico in San Marco, Florence. Fra Angelico 072
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