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The explanation for this coincidence may lie in the Italian expression esser Fra Fazio to be Brother (or Friar) Fazio, a colloquialism for to give away money.
This collection of nine centuries of paintings includes important works by Giotto, Fra Angelico, Perugino, Raphael’s Transfiguration (his last great work), Leonardo da Vinci’s unfinished St. Jerome, Bellini’s Pietà, and Caravaggio’s Descent from the Cross.
To the left, Signorelli portrays himself and Fra Angelico as bystanders in the vivid Preaching of the Antichrist (identified here with Savonarola).
The Dispute unites biblical figures with historical pillars of the faith such as Pope Gregory and Thomas Aquinas, but also painter Fra Angelico and the divine Dante.
It’s an easy walk to Piazza San Marco and the Dominican Monastery of San Marco, an evocative setting for a museum largely devoted to the paintings of Florentine-born Fra Angelico (1387–1455), who lived here as a monk.