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Who commissioned Fra Angelico’s high altarpiece for San Marco?
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Fra Angelico
Madonna of Humility, tempera on panel by Fra Angelico, c. 1440; in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Fra Angelico was commissioned to paint the high altarpiece for the church of San Marco in Florence by Cosimo de’ Medici the Elder around 1438.1