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Museo di San Marco Review
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Museo di San Marco
- Address: Piazza San Marco 1, Florence | Map It
- Phone: 055/2388608
- Category: Museums/Galleries, Religious Sites
- Location: San Marco
Fodor's Review:
A former Dominican convent adjacent to the church of San Marco now houses this museum, which contains many stunning works by Fra Angelico (circa 1400-55), the Dominican friar famous for his piety as well as for his painting. When the friars' cells were restructured between 1439 and 1444, he decorated many of them with frescoes meant to spur religious contemplation. His unostentatious and direct paintings exalt the simple beauties of the contemplative life. Fra Angelico's works are everywhere, from the friars' cells to the superb panel paintings on view in the museum. Don't miss the famous Annunciation, on the upper floor, and the works in the gallery off the cloister as you enter. Here you can see his beautiful Last Judgment; as usual, the tortures of the damned are far more inventive and interesting than the pleasures of the redeemed.
- Cost: EUR 4
- Open: Weekdays 8:15-1:50, weekends 8:15-6:50. Closed 1st, 3rd, and 5th Sun., and 2nd and 4th Mon. of month
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