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The Museum of Saint Mark is gained in chiostro of the
Dominican convent of Saint Mark and place in omonima the public
square. The Place, beyond famous being in order to have
accommodated the Savonarola has been decorated in great part with
frescoes to it of the Angelic Blessed soul to horse of the XIV and XV
century.
The history
Ofl 1436 Cosimo the Old one,
yielded the Observing Convent and the church to the "Dominican ones"
that ivi were settled in place of i Monaci Silvestrini removed from
Pope Eugene IV. On plan of Michelozzo, Cosimo (Pater Patriæ),
made it to restructure second the modern ones canoni of the age,
being made it to become one of the most comfortable monasteri of the
peninsula. The constructive criterion is simple and elegant.
A wide building from the spaces very delineates to you and
vivibili but the beautifulr and elegant part is the library that is
realized in a width knows it to three navate with cover to botte.
During rengo of Lorenzo "the Magnificent one", this atmosphere
divenne place of encounter for many umanisti of the period like
Poliziano Angel, and Pico of Aiming it that liberations could consult
the books of the library. In effects this is the first all over
the world western public library never realized! |
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Annunciation 1387 -
1455
Frà Beato Angelico
Fresco |
The convent of Saint Mark endured the first
expropriation in 1808 during the Napoleonica age but it returned in
possession of the friars endured after the fall of
the French emperor. The second and definitive expropriation it
had it in 1866 with the R.D. de l7 July 1 866 that
previewed the abolition of the religious orders. Declared "well
monumental" of national importance, it came opened al public nel 1869.
As in poce the images brought back here, the artistic part more
important beyond to the architecture and the constructive work of the
complex, are the paintings of the Angelic Blessed soul, friar-painter
whose true name was Giovanni from Fiesole.
In "the public" refectory, that one dedicated to the
acceptance of the pilgrims and not that one where they ate the friars,
the Ghirlandaio frescoed the cenacolo even if it thinks that the work
effectively was not executed from celebre the painter. One
believes that only it had designed on the wall the bottom sketches and
that I fresco it true and just had been executed from the brother and
the disciple Sebastiano Mainardi. In a generalized manner the
pittoria structure is similar to that one of the cenacolo of
Ognissanti, in which the times they are opened on loggiato in
perspective and behind on a garden where plants and animals of the
paradise are looked at.
The Piagnona
"Tied to the vicissitudes Savonaroliane, the bell
of the church (said the piagnona, as the piagnoni it follows us of the
ferrarese friar) endured a curious process like punishment in order to
have played to alarm when the fiorentini they were crowded to the
convent in order to capture the condemned friar for heresy. The
bell was detached and capacity in processione for the city while it
came hit from whips of leather for punishment. It was placed
near the church of Saint Salvatore to the Mount and it did not play
never more. After to have been conserved to along in the
courtyard of the topographical Museum Florence com' it was, from the
first years of 2000 it is returned to the places legacies to its
history, in the contiguous museum of Saint Mark. " |
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