Fra Angelico Fresco, Convent of St Mark, Florence, Tuscany

Virgin Mary in thought, detail from Mocking of Christ, with the Virgin and St Dominic, Renaissance fresco, 1441-42, by Fra Angelico, 1395-1455, in Cell 7, in the Dominican Convent of St Mark, now the Museo Nazionale di San Marco, in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Christ is blindfolded and crowned with thorns, and jeering soldiers appear as disembodied hands, a spitting head, cap raised in sarcasm, a hand and beating stick. The original convent was rebuilt 1437-52 for Cosimo I de Medici by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi, 1396-1472, in Renaissance style. The interior walls were painted 1439-44 with frescoes by Fra Angelico and his assistants. The convent is part of the Florence UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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1395-1455 1396-1472 1437-52 1439-44 1441-42 Angelico Appear Assistants Bartolomeo Beating Blindfolded Convent Convento Cosimo Crowned Disembodied Dominic Dominican Emotion Firenze Frescoes Guido Jeering Medici Michelozzi Michelozzo Mocking Nazionale Quattrocento Rebuilt Sarcasm Sorrow Spitting Thorns Toscana Tuscan

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