The Revaluation of 'Christian' Art: Ruskin's Appreciation of Fra Angelico 1845–60

Abstract

In Modern Painters and over a period of fourteen years, John Ruskin embraced, propagated, analysed, criticized, and finally repudiated the 'Christian' aesthetic in art. In terms of the dialectic of 'Christian' and 'Pagan' or classical art in Romantic and early Victorian aesthetics, Ruskin's changing presentation to his readers of the art of Fra Angelico deserves particular study. Fra Angelico, the pious monk and painter of Vasari's Lives, was for Ruskin and his readers the type of the 'Christian' artist.

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