Fra Angelico first of the artists turned to the story, which later became unusually popular; its essence: the Virgin, Christ, angels and saints are placed in a single space. In Gothic painting, they were divided into three separate groups, but in the era of the Early Renaissance a rectangular composition, called “The Holy Conversation”, arose.
One of the earliest examples of such a composition can be considered the work of Fra Angelico “Madonna with the Child and Saints Peter Martyr, Francis, Laurence, John the Evangelist, Cosmas and Damian.” Here the Mother of God is seated on a throne placed in a niche. Traditional elements of decoration are cornice, frieze and a series of arches.
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