The San Marco Altarpiece is an early Renaissance panel painting by the Florentine friar and painter Fra Angelico, made between about 1438 and 1443 for the church of San Marco in Florence at the commission of Cosimo de Medici the Elder. It shows the Virgin and Child enthroned among saints and angels, and was notable in its own time for an innovative use of perspective and for weaving contemporary Dominican and Medici political symbolism into a traditional devotional subject. The main panel measures about 220 by 227 centimetres. It was originally accompanied by nine predella panels telling the story of the physician saints Cosmas and Damian, most of which are now dispersed to other collections, while the main panel and two side panels remain together at the Museo di San Marco in Florence. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Year Createdcompleted sometime between 1438 and 1443, the earlier year is given as Value since Int takes one year not a range LocationSan Marco Museum, Florence, Italy 1 Commissioned ByCosimo de Medici the Elder 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. San Marco Altarpiece (Wikipedia)
Introduction
completed sometime between 1438 and 1443
Infobox
Tempera on wood
Introduction [commissioned-by]
It was commissioned by Cosimo de' Medici the Elder
Introduction [location]
housed in the San Marco Museum of Florence, Italy
Genre reference
The San Marco Altarpiece is an early Renaissance panel painting by the Florentine friar and painter Fra Angelico, made between about 1438 and 1443 for the church of San Marco in Florence at the commission of Cosimo de Medici the Elder.
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