Fra Bartolomeo Paints the Vision of St. Bernard

1507

In the cloisters of San Marco in Florence, the Dominican friar and painter Fra Bartolomeo completed his luminous Vision of Saint Bernard, a work that fused Savonarola's austere piety with the monumental forms of the High Renaissance. It was devotional art stripped of vanity - no patron portraits, no gilded distractions, only faith and light.