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| Welcome to the website of the Greenwich Decorative and Fine Arts Society (GDFAS). We are a friendly voluntary organisation that works to promote and preserve the arts in Greenwich and the south-east London area. We are a member society of the National Association of Decorative & Fine Arts Societies. |
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| NEXT LECTURE: 13 February 2012 - Brothers of the Brush: Artist Monks in 15th century Florence - Sian Walters |
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| This lecture examines the unusual phenomenon of the artist monk or “frate dipintore” in Renaissance Florence - men who lived, on the one hand, an austere and cloistered existence and yet rose to become some of the most successful and highly respected artists of their time. Fra Filippo Lippi, Lorenzo Monaco and Fra Angelico were well-known not only as painters of devotional works for their own orders but also as highly active and successful figures outside their monasteries. |
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