San Marco Museum

The San Marco Museum is located in Piazza San Marco. You can reach it from the Duomo (cathedral) by taking via de' Martelli and then directly Via Cavour which is located in its extension until you reach piazza San Marco.

Address: 1 Piazza San Marco

Opening hours: Monday to Friday from 8:15 am to 1:50 pm. Closed on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Sunday of the month and on the Monday following the 2nd and 4th Sundays ....

Price: 8 € per person

 

Chiostro di Sant’ Antonio – cloister of Saint Antoine.

Under its arcades are frescoes by Guido di Pietro, called Fra Giovanni in religion, but better known as Fra Angelico.

 

The cloister of the San Marco museum

 

Among these frescoes, Saint Dominic adoring the Cross.


Fresco of Fra Angelico

The rooms of the museum overlooking the cloister house paintings of churches and palaces in Florence, including the Madonna dei Lini and the altarpiece of San Marco by Fra Angelico.

 

A room in the San Marco Museum

 

The room of Fra Bartolomeo, in addition to some of his works, houses the disturbing and fascinating portrait of Savonarola in which he could put all the fanaticism of the character.

 

Small refectory

It was used as a dining room for visiting guests and Domenico Ghirlandaio decorated it with a Holy Supper. The cat, the incarnation of evil at the time, is at the feet of Judas.

 

Second floor

At the top of the staircase, the Annunciation by Fra Angelico is one of the most famous works of the Florentine Renaissance.

 

The Annunciation by Fra Angelico at the San Marco Museum

 

Each cell is decorated with a small fresco by Fra Angelico and his assistants and was intended for the meditation of its occupant.

In the double cell, where Cosimo de' Medici used to retire, the fresco of the Adoration of the Magi is largely due to Benozzo Gozzoli, who later decorated the chapel of the Medici-Riccardi Palace.

 

A cell of San Marco

 

The fresco of the Adoration of the Magi

 

Library

Built by Michelozzo and enriched by the Medici, it was the first one opened to the public.

 

The library of San Marco Museum

 

 

The monuments of Florence