The monastery or San Marco at the edge of tourist Florence is a place of deep quiet. It is a serious place with stone corridors and wide arches with wooden stairs leading up to the monks cells. In each is a fresco for meditation painted by one of the monks - Far Angelico. In the corridor at the top of the stairs, waiting for the monks to see it as they return to their cells for prayer and sleep, is this image of the Annunciation. Far Angelico shows the stillness of the waiting virgin and her acquiescence to the terrifying message of the angel. The angel is gentle with her, their arms and hands mirroring each other in real connection. Far Angelico has fun with angel wings and clothes - in other versions of this subject they are even more elaborate than here. This messenger is simply alert under the elegant arches of the loggia. It is a moment of silence as the greatest miracle of all takes place.
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