Ultra Fractal 5.02 plus Painter 11. During the now misted remembrance of those youthful years of my enthusiasm for the magic of the Italian Renaissance, I visited both Venice and Florence to gaze in wonderment at the works of Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione, Carpaccio, Titian, Tintoretto, in Venice, and Giotto, Masacchio, Raphael, Michelangelo and so on in Florence. Important was a visit to the Convent of San Marco in Florence to enjoy the quietness of the cloisters and the meditative gentleness of Fra Angelica's frescos. The monastery of San Marco passed from the Benedictines to the Dominicans in the year 1435, and the new owners set about restoring and adapting the buildings to accord with their beliefs. One of their own - Fra Angelico - spent many years with the aid of assistants decorating the interior and no less than 20 of the monks' cells received paintings such as those seen here, where I concentrate on six of the compartments. The picture is presented in a larger size than is normal for me to enable those who care to zoom to better study the paintings. They are, in order from left to right: The Nativity, Annunciation, Noli Me Tangere, Coronation of the Virgin, Mocking of Christ, and Presentation of Jesus in the Temple. They were all painted between 1440 and 1441 though the artist continued working there for some years afterwards. As to my depiction, the upper part was inspired by a recent posting to the UF List by Guido Cavalcante. He discourages the tweaking of his pictures but generally likes to see what others can do from a standing start. You have a two-layer image using gnd.ufm, Slope MartSam 8, a formula previously unknown to me. I was loathe to reduce the number of figures, and so tried developing a spiritual feeling rather than attempting to pursue an alternative idea for a queue (the other obvious possibility). I had intended importing the six Angelico works into UF, but decided they could equally be placed on individual layers in Painter where they could be sized and the transparency levels adjusted as necessary. Phew! I hope I've said enough? Cliff.