Menarini Pills of Art Coronation of the Virgin by Fra Angelico english version

The Incarnation of the Virgin by Fra Angelico is one of the most unusual paintings by this extraordinary painter of the early Renaissance, the 1430s, who was active in the monastery of San Marco in Florence. In fact, he was a painter and a Dominican monk, and he brought to art history a characteristic for which he is known to the present day, which is the tenderness of his figures, not just of the figures' faces, of their garments, but also of their actions. Here we see the Incarnation of the Virgin, not as we would traditionally expect Jesus putting a heavy crown onto the head of his mother, but instead just adding a gem, a very, very precious gem, into her crown, which is already on her head. This extremely tender gesture goes back to the visions of Saint Brigid of Sweden, which were known in Florence in the 1430s. But thanks to this, we have this deeply tender and human representation of a supernatural act, as is underscored by this explosion of gold rays emerging from the scene.