Wright, Alison;
(2023)
Compelling Radiance: Fra Angelico's Shine.
Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
, 65
(2)
pp. 139-171.
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Abstract
Radiance was a major challenge both to painters’ means and the limits of their materials in the early decades of the fifteenth century and yet, because it falls outside the obvious analytical grasp of other types of figuration radiance or shine has escaped critical attention. This essay looks at how and why radiance was produced as special effect in a number of fifteenth-century altarpieces using gold leaf alongside tempera painting, in order to address what is both a material history and a still active agent in the optics and affect of paintings showing visionary, apocalyptic or paradisiacal subjects.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Compelling Radiance: Fra Angelico's Shine |
| Location: | Italy |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.khi.fi.it/en/publikationen/mitteilunge... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Gold, Light, Renaissance painting, Fra Angelico, Paradise, Dante Alighieri |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History of Art |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10201055 |
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