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The angelic friar at the Met.(Fra Angelico)
In 1896, a Scottish insurance magnate named Evan MacKenzie set himself to erecting a massive "medieval" castle on a glorious site overlooking the Mediterranean, hard by the outskirts of Genoa. For this extravagant client, a gifted young Florentine architect named Gino Coppede concocted a huge turreted, crenellated, and rusticated fantasy that, to this day, remains a masterpiece of fin de siecle historicism run amok. As the final jewel in MacKenzie's baronial crown, Coppede designed a chapel and commissioned for its walls some suitably religious frescoes. Executed by the brilliant Russian copyist, and later restorer, Lockoff, these decorations paraphrase and mimic the one ...
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