Dominican Gallery

The Florentines Renouncing The Vanities By Order of Savonarola, 1890. Creator: Unknown

The Florentines Renouncing The Vanities By Order of Savonarola, 1890. Supporters of Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498) Italian Dominican friar and preacher active in Renaissance Florence, at a bonfire of the vanities c1497. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. IV - Modern History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]

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Girolamo Savonarola, (1933). Creator: Unknown

Girolamo Savonarola, (1933). Italian political and religious reformer Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498) preaching in Florence. A Dominican priest, Savonarola preached against what he perceived as the depravity of the times and advocated a return to traditional Christian virtues. His followers in Florence made a bonfire of the vanities and he maintained Rome will not quench these flames (1496). Savonarola came increasingly into conflict with both the Church and political authorities. In 1497 he was excommunicated and the following year was tortured and hanged, after which his body was burned. From "Gestalten Der Weltgeschichte", a book of cigarette-card portrait miniatures of figures in world history from the last four hundred years. [Germany, 1933]

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Fra Angelico, c1909

Fra Angelico, c1909. 20th century portrait of Italian Early Renaissance painter Fra Angelico (born Guido di Pietro, c1395-1455). He was a Dominican friar (his name means Angelic friar'), and carried out commissions in Florence, and in Rome for Pope Eugene IV. From Fra Angelico - Masterpieces in Colour, by S. L. Bensusan. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Frederick A. Stokes Co. London & New York, c1909]

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