PFORR, Franz
(b. 1788, Frankfurt, d. 1812, Roma)

Raphael, Fra Angelico and Michelangelo over Rome

1810
Pencil on paper, 311 x 200 mm
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt

Fra Angelico's work was especially esteemed in nineteenth-century Germany, where intellectuals sought to recover the Gothic past and an imagined age of faith.