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Fra Angelico painting, Convent of St Mark, Florence, Tuscany, Italy

Hell, with sinners being tortured and burned alive, and Satan eating bodies, detail from the Last Judgement, 1425-30, tempera painting on panel by Fra Angelico, 1395-1455, in the Dominican Convent of St Mark, now the Museo Nazionale di San Marco, in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The painting was commissioned by the Camaldolese Order for abbot Ambrogio Traversar, for the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence. It depicts Christ in judgement with angels, the Virgin, St John and saints, with Hell on the right and Heaven on the left. The original convent was rebuilt 1437-52 for Cosimo I de Medici by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi, 1396-1472, in Renaissance style. The interior walls were painted 1439-44 with frescoes by Fra Angelico and his assistants. The convent is part of the Florence UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Hell, with sinners being tortured and burned alive, and Satan eating bodies, detail from the Last Judgement, 1425-30, tempera painting on panel by Fra Angelico, 1395-1455, in the Dominican Convent of St Mark, now the Museo Nazionale di San Marco, in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The painting was commissioned by the Camaldolese Order for abbot Ambrogio Traversar, for the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence. It depicts Christ in judgement with angels, the Virgin, St John and saints, with Hell on the right and Heaven on the left. The original convent was rebuilt 1437-52 for Cosimo I de Medici by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi, 1396-1472, in Renaissance style. The interior walls were painted 1439-44 with frescoes by Fra Angelico and his assistants. The convent is part of the Florence UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen