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Housed in the deconsecrated Dominican convent,
the museum is effectively a shrine to one man, Fra´ Angelico, so named
for his `gentle personality and mystical art´. As with most things Florentine,
the Medici are never far away; it was Cosimo il Vecchio who funded the
repair and enlargement of the monastery by Michelozzo, and he who went
on to establish a vast library there. It was during this work that Fra´
Angelico himself was working, having already become famous for his work
in Orvieto and in the Vatican. Click
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