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When Cosimo de' Medici rebuilt the convent, he commissioned Fra Angelico to decorate the walls with intricate frescos. This included the altarpiece, the inside of the monk's cells, the friar's cloister, the chapter house, and inside the corridors; around fifty pieces in total. [2]
It comes from the convent of San Pietro Martire and a document from 30 March 1429 notes a sum of 20 florins owed to the convent of San Domenico, Fiesole, where the painter was a monk. According to some art historians, it could be contemporary of the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (1424–1425) by Masaccio and Masolino da Panicale , although ...
Fra Angelico, O.P. (/ f r ɑː æ n ˈ dʒ ɛ l ɪ k oʊ /; [1] Italian: [fra anˈdʒɛliko]; born Guido di Pietro; c. 1395 [2] – 18 February 1455) was a Dominican friar and Italian Renaissance painter of the Early Renaissance, described by Giorgio Vasari in his Lives of the Artists as having "a rare and perfect talent". [3]
The work was painted for a side altar in the Convent of San Domenico, Fiesole, where Fra Angelico was a friar. For the same church he also contributed the main altarpiece, showing the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Dominican saints (c. 1425) and the Coronation of the Virgin, now in the Louvre (c. 1424–1435) .
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Cosimo, who also financed the realization of the liturgical books for the church, illuminated by Zanobi Strozzi, a close collaborator of Fra Angelico, provided the necessary volumes, purchasing the extensive book collection of the humanist Niccolò Niccoli 1441, [3] which abounded in classical, Greek and Latin texts.
Il tabernacolo, o reliquiario, fu commissionato all'Angelico insieme ad altri tre (`Madonna della Stella', `Incoronazione della Vergine' `Dormitio Virginis e 'Assunzione della Vergine' Boston, I. Stewart Gardner Museum) da Fra Giovanni di Zanobi Masi, per S. Maria Novella, morto il 27 giugno 1434.