Explore the extent to which Fra' Angelico's work engages with new issues in pictorial representation. How can he be seen to develop his own aesthetic sensibility?

... Explore the extent to which Fra' Angelico's work engages with new issues in pictorial representation. How can he be seen to develop his own aesthetic sensibility? Fra' Angelico is best known for his artistic innovations in style, building on the earlier work of Masaccio and Masolino to create an aesthetic sensibility that reflected the importance of beauty and wealth of material in art, and in particular religious art. His contributions to the development of the 'sacra conversazione', and to the merits of a naturalistic composition are notable, but most importantly, his ability to paint creations full of ethereal light without resorting to the heavy black lines of contemporaries such as Fra' Filippo Lippi. His life was mostly confined to the monasteries of Florence, and the spiritual intensity of his paintings led Guido di Pietro di Gino to be known as the "Angel painter". The bulk of his work was done for

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