Dear John, Otfried and Tom:
Thank you very much for your documented response to my query. San
Antonino Pierozzi is a fascinating figure: living in an efervescent
Florence, confessor and friend of the Medici family, his sermons -compiled
in his Summa Theologica Moralis (P.F. HOWARD, _Beyond the Written Word:
preaching and theology in the Florence of Archbishop Antoninus, 1427-1459_,
Firenze, Olschki, 1995)- have influenced artists such as Masaccio and Fra
Angelico, the later living under the same roof in the Convento de San Marco.
According some scholars (M. BOSKOVITS, "La fase tarda del Beato Angelico",
Arte Cristiana, LXXI/694 (1983) San Antonino advised Fra Angelico in
iconographical questions. His splendid Last Judgement at San Marco shows a
dantesque Lucifer. Maybe this is a silly question but being San Antonino a
critic to Dante it seems a little strange -perhaps in this question the
painter just inspired himself in the florentine frescos (Santa Croce, Santa
Maria Novella).
Best Regards and thank you again!
Carlos
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