Fresco, the painting technique of applying pigment directly to wet plaster walls, is very much associated with the Italian renaissance, and the Museo de Marco has many fine examples. While the larger museums in Florence, the Ufizzi and the Accademia, have frescoes in their collections, they have been removed from the original locations for display. Here at the Museo de San Marco, a former 15th century Dominican monastery, the frescoes can be viewed on site as originally intended. From the ground floor central courtyard and chapel we walk up the stairway to the monastic dormitories. At the top of the stairway is the famous fresco of ‘The Annunciation’ by Fra Angelico, a work found in nearly all art history textbooks covering the masters of the renaissance.
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| The dormitories |
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| Each of the 43 dormitory cells has a fresco |
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| View to the courtyard from the dormitory cell |
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| Examples of the many courtyard frescoes |
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