Colour as Guideline in Fra Angelico's Work

Mecthilde Airiau (1)

1 CAC - Centre André Chastel : Laboratoire de recherche en histoire de l'art

This article aims to show how Fra Angelico uses colour as a tool to build his paintings through various manners: in his artworks, it organizes the space and leads the eye towards the most important part of the image, thus increasing the ability of the painting to act as a preaching tool. This use of colour is to connect to rhetorical practices such as the ars memoriae. This article will be based on three examples of Fra Angelico's work: the Armadio degli Argenti, the Louvre Coronation of the Virgin and the Uffizi Coronation of the Virgin.

Mots clés: colour; predication; image construction; ductus; ars memoriae color

Domaines: Art et histoire de l'art

Mecthilde Airiau. Colour as Guideline in Fra Angelico's Work. Caiana, 2024, 23, pp.61-74. ⟨hal-04400710⟩