(December 30th, 2015) On Thursday, January 14th, for a series of conference on Italian art that the Italian Cultural Institute in Valletta regularly hosts, the founder and director of the Fine Arts Museum in Malta, Marius Zerafa will reveal “The art treasures of the convent of San Marco in Florence”. The Dominican convent of San Marco in Florence was founded in 1436 and designed by architect Michelozzo. The fame of the museum is due mainly to the paintings by Beato Angelico, one of the greatest painters of the Renaissance, who frescoed the convent. Also important are the collections of the sixteenth century, with works by Fra Bartolomeo, and the section dedicated to artifacts from historic downtown buildings demolished in the nineteenth century. Real “art treasures “.
