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Painted in the corridor off which the brethren's cells open (between cells 25 and 26), this fresco was one of Fra Angelico's last works in San Marco's Dominican Monastery. There is almost a metaphysical feel to the frozen gestures, the deep gazes, and the strong and boldly-applied colours.
The Crucifixion, Fra Angelico. Fra Angelico, 1441-43. Fresco, 216.6 x 374 in. (550 x 950 cm.) Convent of San Marco, Florence. Jesus is pictured as in most 15th-century Crucifixion images, his eyes closed in death and the weight of his body making his arms sag.
The picture may well have been painted for Cosimo and is listed in a 1492 inventory of the Medici Palace. As in the San Marco frescoes, saints born hundreds of years after the Crucifixion are shown experiencing the event as an extension of their meditations. The background is regilt.
Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro) Italian. ca. 1420–23. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 603. This early work by Fra Angelico, likely made for private devotion, accentuates the drama of Christ’s Crucifixion.
In 1435, the Dominican community in Fiesole to which Fra Angelico belonged took possession of the convent of San Marco in Florence. The climax of his artistic career came three years later with the commission from Cosimo de’ Medici to fresco the cloister, chapter house, refectory, and dormitory cells and corridors of the renovated convent.
Art in Tuscany | Fra Angelico | The San Marco Altarpiece 1438-1440. Fra Angelico, San Marco Altarpiece: Madonna with Child, Saints and Crucifixion, about 1438-1440, Florence, Museo di San Marco. The San Marco Altarpiece (also known as Madonna and Saints) is housed in the San Marco Museum of Florence, Italy.
In 1439 Fra Angelico completed one of his most famous works, the San Marco Altarpiece at Florence. It broke new ground. Not unusual had been images of the enthroned Madonna and Child surrounded by saints, the custom was that the setting looked heaven-like, saints and angels hovering as ethereal presences rather than earthly substance.
