How Long to Read Fra Angelico

How Long Does it Take to Read Fra Angelico?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read Fra Angelico by Georges Didi-Huberman

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A Florentine painter who took Dominican vows, Fra Angelico (1400-1455) approached his work as a largely theological project. For him, the problems of representing the unrepresentable, of portraying the divine and the spiritual, mitigated the more secular breakthroughs in imitative technique. Didi-Huberman explores Fra Angelico's solutions to these problems - his use of color to signal approaching visibility, of marble to recall Christ's tomb, of paint drippings to simulate (or stimulate) holy anointing. He shows how the painter employed emptiness, visual transformation, and displacement to give form to the mystery of faith. In the work of Fra Angelico, an alternate strain of Renaissance painting emerges to challenge rather than reinforce verisimilitude. Didi-Huberman traces this disruptive impulse through theological writings and iconographic evidence and identifies a widespread tradition in Renaissance art that ranges from Giotto's break with Byzantine image-making well into the sixteenth century. He reveals how the techniques that served this ultimately religious impulse may have anticipated the more abstract characteristics of modern art, such as color fields, paint spatterings, and the absence of color. Part of Didi-Huberman's large-scale rethinking of art theory and history, and the first of his books to appear in English translation, Fra Angelico is a fitting introduction to one of the most original and celebrated writers in the world of art history and criticism.

How long is Fra Angelico?

Fra Angelico by Georges Didi-Huberman is 336 pages long, and a total of 86,016 words.

This makes it 113% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Fra Angelico Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read Fra Angelico aloud.

What Reading Level is Fra Angelico?

Fra Angelico is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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