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Article: Christmas art books
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- The Spectator
- Article date:
- December 10, 2005
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The only halfway festive offering in this year's crop of art books is Laurence Kanter and Pia Palladino's Fra Angelico (Yale, £40). Even in these secularised times, Angelico is still a favourite in the Christmas card stakes. First and foremost, however, this is a major scholarly reassessment of the artist's career, but it also doubles as the catalogue of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which closes at the end of January.
For all that it is lavishly illustrated and gorgeously produced, it makes few concessions to non-specialists, but that does not mean it is not worth persevering with.
A generation ago, Angelico's oeuvre had been pared down by an access (and possibly ...