Excerpt from Selections From the Sermons of Padre Agostino Da Montefeltro
IT is certain that the more we look back upon Florentine art, the more convinced we are that inspiration alone can have guided Fra Angelico in his treatment of those sacred subjects Which are SO familiar to us as the works of his pencil, imparting to his representations of Angels, Saints, and Madonnas a strange unearthly beauty, peculiarly their own. And this characteristic strikes as still more forcibly When they aire set beside modern works of art, for these reveal to us plainly that the mind of the artist has been guided by no other influence than that Which has come to him through the medium of the outward sense. The real, as it can be seen, felt, and analysed - this is the modern formula of art.
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