San Domenico is a conventual complex rising between Fiesole and Florence. This is where Giovanni de' Fiesole, also known as Beato Angelico by the lovers of the Renaissance art, lived and studied.

The convent was raised between 1405 and 1406 by Giovanni Dominici and the Fiesole's bishop Jacopo Altoviti, two friars coming from Santa Maria Novella. However, the latter could not see its completion because he died in 1403.
The Dominicans almost immediately inhabited the convent but the works stopped in 1418, only. Two years later, Beato Angelico depicted a "Madonna benedicente" over the entrance arch and its synopsis was discovered during the restoration works of 1960. He also frescoed a crucifix in the capitular room.
In 1491, the works started again with the extension of the cloister and the construction of a new building that later became the library. Jeronimo Brignole, a Genoese nobleman who had taken his vows contributed to the building of the Noviziato Nuovo at the end of the XVI century.
The convent was dispossessed in 1808 after Napoleon had suppressed all the religious orders in the ambit of his political and personal battle against the Jesuits. The new owners transformed it into a holiday resort. In 1879, the friars were obliged to cede two frescoes by Beato Angelico to the museums of Paris and St. Petersburg to buy the convent back, while another fresco had already been stolen by Napoleon himself.
The church of San Domenico also makes part of the complex. It was built in the first half of the XV century thanks to a funding by the Florentine noble Barnaba degli Agli, whose family notably contributed to the construction of the whole complex. Initially, it had a one-nave plant with six chapels at its sides.
In the XVII century, Matteo Nighetti added a porch and he designed the bell tower, too. The inside of the church was decorated around the XVIII century. A triptych by the Beato Angelico, one of the few works of the famous painter that are still present in the complex, can be admired in the first chapel on the left.