Series of lectures on Italian Art by Fr. Marius Zerafa
“Frate Giovanni Angelico da Fiesole, il quale fu al secolo chiamato Guido, essendo non meno stato eccellente pittore e miniatore che ottimo religioso, merita per l’una e per l’altra cagione che di lui sia fatta onoratissima memoria”. With these words Giorgio Vasari , in his Vite, hands down to posterity the figure of Beato Angelico, so much so that many centuries later, in February 1984, Pope John Paul II proclaims him “Patron of Catholic artists” reminding how his life was an extraordinary “chant to God” considering how closely to his heart he treasured the glory of God and how he expressed it in his works of art.
In this lecture Fr. Zerafa will illustrate how Beato Angelico practised, in Renaissance Italy of the Fifteenth Century, his predicatory art with his brushes, painting several masterpieces, among which the famous Annunciazione, in a climate of high spiritual and intellectual perfection found in Florence, in the whole of Tuscany, in St. Peter’s and the Vatican palaces.