Reconstructing the Renaissance: Saint James Freeing Hermogenes by Fra Angelico Art Publications Diego Velázquez

Diego Velázquez

Extensive color plates and many lush details complete this notable volume

All are accompanied by original music

this volume examines the different approaches the artist employed in his various depictions of the subject—from his works that respond to Gustave Courbet

Reconstructing the Renaissance: Saint James Freeing Hermogenes by Fra Angelico Art Publications Diego VelázquezThis second volume of the Kimbell Masterpiece Series focuses on Fra Angelicos Saint James Freeing Hermogenes, painted in the 1420s. When the Kimbell acquired the work in 1986, it quickly became one of the most important early Italian paintings in the United States. Laurence Kanter analyzes the painting along with some of its original companion altarpiece panels and makes use of new technical studies and archival research to reconstruct the original