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San Marco, Florence | MyTravelGuide.com
This complex was enlarged in 1437 by Michelozzo to accommodate Dominican monks who had moved to the city from nearby Fiesole. Traces of frescoes from the 14th and 15th centuries remain today, although some parts of the structure were modified during the Counter-Reformation and the facade was finally...
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San Marco | Museum/Attraction Review | Florence | Frommers.com
In 1437, Cosimo de' Medici il Vecchio, grandfather of Lorenzo the Magnificent, had Michelozzo convert a medieval monastery here into a new home for the Dominicans, in which Cosimo also founded Europe's first public library. From 1491 until he was burned at the stake on Piazza della Signoria in 1498,...
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Museum of San Marco, Florence:Museum of Beato Angelico
. Fra' Angelico was a Dominican monk who later became Prior of the convent and who decorated in a style perfectly adapted to the architecture of the chapter house, cloister and the brothers' first floor cells. The museum offers the visitor an example of a perfectly preserved fifteenth century conven...
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RealTravel - Poem from MAW - San Marco | Florence Travel Blog | Florence Travel Reviews
Museo San Marco rain continuous rain the sky above the Duomo a leaded apron blocking light the Arno roiling pewter beneath the Ponte Vecchio unseasonable north winds prevailing across Appenine foothills, swirling the May day’s dun dress. Tourists duel with umbrellas in a narrow cloister walk, preo...
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Museo delle Cappelle Medicee
