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San Marco
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Cosimo il Vecchio de’ Medici commissioned Michelozzo to build this Dominican monastery in 1437. This was Fra Angelico’s home (see Fra Angelico (1395–1455)). He frescoed his brothers’ cells with devotional images and left a plethora of golden altarpieces now housed downstairs near Ghirlandaio’s Last Supper in the refectory. Fra Bartolomeo’s portrait of Savonarola hangs in the “Mad Monk’s” room, beside a scene of the theocrat’s fiery death (see Florence).
Practical Information
Piazza di S Marco 1
Open 8:15am–1:50pm Mon–Fri, 8:15am–6:50pm Sat, 8:15am–7pm Sun; closed 2nd, 4th Mon and 1st, 3rd, 5th Sun of month Admission charge
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