Excerpt from The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Vol. 2: A Monthly Journal Il Beato Angelico is the realization of a great idea. He fulfils all that the mind requires in a great Christian painter. If we, strive to conceive what is contained in that idea, it will be found. That we have sketched in, our minds Fra Angelico; so if we reverse the process, and study the life of Fra Angelico, we shall imprint upon our minds, and as surely treasure up in our hearts, what a Christian painter really is, and see to what a height he may attain, and what a glorious mission he is enabled to fulfil. Perhaps there is no time when the mind appreciates so keenly the qualities of which we are speaking, as when it is thrown. Back upon itself for this ideal by the marked absence of it from the works amid which the observer has been lingering in any of the great picture galleries of Europe. We wander through the Louvre or the Pitti, or we spend happy hours in any of the choice collections of Rome, and while the eye feasts upon rich colouring or wondrous drawing, and revels in works of surpassing beauty, the heart too often is left to yearn for something above and beyond what these walls dis play; we feel the power of those great men among whose. Miracles of art we stand, but at the same time we are conscious that more was within their reach, had they but had the heart to grasp it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.