in 1436, a new dominican convent of san marco was established in florence in some older monastery buildings. fra angelico was one of the friars from fiesole who moved to florence. this was an important move for fra angelico because florence already had a great number of artists from whom he could learn. the convent had a very wealthy "patron of the arts" called cosimo de' medici who loved to buy works of art for himself and his favourite churches. cosimo took the largest of the friars' rooms, called cells, at the convent so that he could have a quiet place for religious thought. fra angelico painted a picture showing the magi at bethlehem on the wall of cosimo's cell.