Museum

San Marco Museum

Name: San Marco Museum
Address: 3 Piazza San Marco, Firenze, Toscana, IT

125 locals recommend,

Tips from locals

Michelangelo

October 5, 2022

The Home of Fra Beato Angelico & Girolamo Savonarola The Museum of San Marco is worth visiting for its architecture alone. This consists of the former Dominican convent restored and enlarged to its present size for Cosimo the Elder de' Medici by his favorite architect Michelozzo (1396-1472). Consecrated in 1443, this building was the scene of fervent religious activity, highlighted by personalities such as St. Antonino Pierozzi, Bishop of Florence, the Beato Angelico (c.1400-1450) and, later, Girolamo Savonarola. The museum offers the visitor an example of a perfectly preserved fifteenth century convent, its rational and harmonious plan based on Brunelleschi's innovations. Everything is designed to coordinate and simplify the monastic life within its walls as much in its calm cloister as in the light-filled library, one of the finest interiors of the Renaissance. On the other hand, the complex also contains the museum of Fra' Angelico's works in the form of frescoed interiors and the panels displayed in the large alms-house. Among the first series, the most famous is the Crucifixion painted in the Chapter House, permeated by the contemplative melancholy found in the refined spirituality of the Dominicans; in the cells, austere yet full of meditative inspiration for the brethren, are the Annunciation, the Three Marys at the Tomb, Noli me tangere and others.

Jacopo

November 8, 2018

Old museum with the oldest library in town

Gessica

July 30, 2018

Very beautiful museum with frescoes by Beato Angelico. It is an antique monastery, so the structure is already very beautiful itself, with cloisters, the cells where the monks used to live, the library. Very beautiful and easy museum for families. No many tourists, no need to book ahead.