Santa Maria degli Angeli, Florence

Santa Maria degli Angeli (St. Mary of the Angels) is the former church of a now-defunct monastery of that name in Florence, Italy.

The Camaldoli monastery was a major center of studies in the early Renaissance and its scriptorium was a noted producer of manuscripts of high quality.

[2] The late High Gothic painter, Lorenzo Monaco, was a monk at Camaldoli for a time, while he tested his vocation, but ultimately he left.

[3] The Camaldoli church once housed a series of artworks now located elsewhere, such as by Lorenzo Monaco’s Coronation of the Virgin, now in the Uffizi.

Though construction was rapid, it was halted due to funding problems in 1437, when the money for the church was seized by the Florentine government to help finance a war against the neighboring city of Lucca.