Maurice Denis: Notes on religious painting

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Maurice Denis

Notes on Religious Painting

Fra Angelico: La Pala di Annalena, c1430
with paintings from the predella

On Christian art 
On Symbolism 
Ideals - Classical and Byzantine 
The impulse towards naturalism 
The survival of Symbolism

The full text in Word format can be downloaded here

Scene from the lives of SS Cosmas and Damien in the predella of Fra Angelico's Annalena altarpiece with copy by Maurice Denis, 1898

Homage to Albert Gleizes, Politics and Theology, Poems

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