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Monastery of San Marco

Leonardo frequently refers to San Marco: for its library, for Gherardo "miniator" (who "illuminated" manuscripts also for the King of Hungary Mattia Corvino), for the garden of Lorenzo the Magnificent and for the project for the Medicean quarter datable to 1515.
One of the major centres of Florentine cultural and religious life, this was also the scenario of Savonarola's rise and fall. Of notable importance in relation to Leonardo's Last Supper in Milan is the fresco of the same subject painted by Ghirlandaio in this monastery. Framed by the splendid context of Michelozzo's architecture are the frescoes of Fra Angelico in which, along with the hand of collaborators such as Alessio Baldovinetti and Benozzo Gozzoli, the influence of Masaccio is clearly apparent.

Texts by
Alessandro Vezzosi, in collaboration with Agnese Sabato / English translation by Catherine Frost
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