The Duality Of Angelico’s Conception Of Painting In The Monastery Of St.Mark

This paper examines and explains the duality in the painter’s conception of his work,taking as an example some of Angelico’s works at San Marco.The first is an intuitive visual change,i.e.the introduction of perspective that gives a new look to the painter’s work.The second is a deeper change,a theological improvement that occurred within the religion,allowing the germination of humanism and the "restoration" of traditional rituals to occur simultaneously.Angelico’s art creates a tension and conflict between subject and expression,moreover,between rational perception and the consciousness generated by religious impulses.The collision of humanism and religious theology,the intersection of ideological revolution and scripture interpretation tradition,each of them contains a deeper conflict and reconciliation.At the same time,what Angelico designed in St.Mark’s was not a single image,but the entire space within the building.The decoration of St.Mark’s is a visual relic of Dominican culture and provides a legitimate cognitive context for the collective identity of the monks at that time.Based on the study of Angelico’s case,the author hopes to revisit the value of early Renaissance religious art and to extend the horizon to consider broader artistic issues.