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Fra Angelico- Martyrdom of Saints Cosmas and Damian. James Patrick Reid. Fra Angelico, born Guido di Pietro from the Mugello valley north of Florence, joined the Dominican Priory at Fiesole, just a …More
Fra Angelico- Martyrdom of Saints Cosmas and Damian.
James Patrick Reid. Fra Angelico, born Guido di Pietro from the Mugello valley north of Florence, joined the Dominican Priory at Fiesole, just a few miles north of the city of Florence, as Fra Giovanni. His aptitude for painting was
encouraged by his superiors, and later one finds him moved to the Dominican Church of San Marco in
Florence, where the priory today is a public museum virtually entirely dedicated to his work, especially
the superb frescos in a whole series of monks' cells. On the high altar of the Church of San Marco was
an altarpiece which Cosimo de Medici ordered to be removed to the Dominican establishment in Cortona,
where it was placed in position in 1440. This display of power by the temporal ruler left the Dominicans
with a significant gap. However, they had the resources in the person of their own gentle Fra Giovanni. For the high altar he painted a large panel, a little over two metres in height and width, and …More
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