Priory of San Marco | priory, Florence, Italy | Britannica (original) (raw)

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Angelico

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  In Fra Angelico: Years at the priory of San Marco
  …1439, when he entered the priory of San Marco in Florence. There he worked mostly on frescoes. San Marco had been transferred from the Sylvestrine monks to the Dominicans in 1436, and the rebuilding of the church and its spacious priory began about 1438, from designs by the Florentine architect…
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Savonarola

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  In Girolamo Savonarola: Career in Florence
  …post of lecturer in the convent of San Marco, where he gained a great reputation for his learning and asceticism. As a preacher, he was unsuccessful until a sudden revelation inspired him to begin his prophetic sermons. At San Gimignano in Lent 1485 and 1486, he put forward his famous…
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