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Who financed the rebuilding of the priory of San Marco in Florence?
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Madonna of Humility, tempera on panel by Fra Angelico, c. 1440; in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
The rebuilding of the priory of San Marco in Florence, which began around 1438, was generously subsidized by the Medici family. The project was commissioned under the patronage of Cosimo de’ Medici, who employed the architect Michelozzo to design the new church and monastic complex.12