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Benozzo Gozzoli

Self-portrait in the procession of the Magi with his name as author, in Latin on the bonnet: BENOTII OPVs ("work of Benozzo)

Procession of the Magi set out the Medici family (fresco in the Magi Chapel of Palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence)

Miracle of St. Dominic (Milan)

Benozzo di Lese, Benozzo Gozzoli said (Sant'Ilario Colombano was near the Badia di Settimo of Scandicci , 1420 or 1424 - Pistoia , 1497 ) is one of the painters 's major Florentine school whose masterpiece work remains the 's Palazzo Medici-Riccardi.

Summary

1 Biography
2 Works
3 Notes and references
4 Sources
5 See also
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/ / Biography

Gozzoli arrives with his family in Florence in 1427. He trained with Fra Angelico at San Marco monastery where many works are executed from the drawings of the master, then between 1444 and 1447 as a goldsmith in the workshop of Ghiberti and worked with him and his brother Vittorio Ghiberti at the door Paradise of the Baptistery of St. John.

In May 1447, he moved to Rome with Fra Angelico called to Pope Eugenius IV for decorations at the Vatican and the Cappella Niccolina of Nicolas V. His renown as a decorator starts with frescoes (missing) painted during his stay at the church of St. Mary Aracoeli (St. Anthony and Two Angels) and St. Mary Major. He also follows in Umbria when working with frescoes on the ceiling of the cathedral of Orvieto.

In 1449, he left Fra Angelico and remains in Umbria for an Annunciation in Narni , signed OPU Works

Chronology:

The Abduction of Helen (c. 1437-1439) - tempera on panel, 51 cm x 61 cm, National Gallery , London
Women at the Tomb (1440-1441), fresco, San Marco monastery in Florence
Adoration of the Magi (1440-1441), fresco, San Marco, Florence
Madonna and Child Giving Blessings (1449) - Tempera on silk on wooden frame, 254 cm x 130 cm Santa Maria sopra Minerva , Rome
Virgin and Child with St. Francis and St. Bernardino of Siena (1450), fresco, San Fortunato, Montefalco
Saint Fortunatus Enthroned (1450), fresco, 200 x 110 cm, San Fortunato, Montefalco
Virgin and Child (1450), fresco, 250 cm x 135 cm, San Fortunato, Montefalco
Saint Anthony of Padua (1450) - panel, Church of St. Mary Aracoeli , Rome
Madonna della Cintola (1450) - tempera on panel, 133 cm x 165 cm, Vatican
Virgin and Child surrounded by Saints (1452), fresco, San Francesco, Cappella di San Gerolamo, Montefalco
The Departure of St. Jerome from Antioch (1452), fresco, Cappella di San Gerolamo, San Francesco, Montefalco
Jerome removing a thorn from a lion (1452), fresco, Cappella di San Gerolamo, San Francesco, Montefalco
Virgin and Child with Saints Francis and Bernardino, and Fra Jacopo (c. 1452) - tempera on panel, 34 cm x 54 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Virgin and Child with Saints John the Baptist, Peter, Jerome and Paul called Pala della Sapienza Nuova (1456) - tempera on panel, 122 cm x 212 cm, National Gallery of Umbria , Perugia
Procession of three kings set the house of Medici (1459-1460), fresco, Chapel of the Magi , Palazzo Medici Riccardi , Florence
Virgin and Child (c. 1460) - tempera on panel, 84.8 cm x 50.6 cm Institute of Arts, Detroit
Madonna and Child (1460), Church of Santi Domenico e Sisto , Rome
Purification (1461) - tempera on panel altarpiece, 158 cm x 171 cm, National Gallery , London
Saint Dominic resuscitating Napoleone Orsini (1461) - tempera on panel, 25 cm x 35 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera , Milan
The fall of Simon Magus (1461-1462) - tempera on panel, 24 cm x 35.5 cm Royal Collection, Hampton Court
Dance of Salome (1461-1462) - tempera on panel, 23.8 cm x 34.3 cm, National Gallery of Art , Washington
History of St. Augustine (1464-1465), fresco, Agostino, San Gimignano
The Four Evangelists (1464-1465), fresco, Agostino, San Gimignano
Saints (1464-1465), fresco, Agostino, San Gimignano
San Sebastian Intercessor (1464-1466), fresco, 527 cm x 248 cm, Agostino, San Gimignano
The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian (1465) - tempera on panel, 525 cm x 378 cm Church of San Gimignano collegiate
The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (1466) - tempera on panel, 90 cm x 50 cm, Pinacoteca Comunale, Terni
Virgin and Child with Saints Andrew and Prosper said dell'Umilt Madonna (1466) - tempera on panel, 137 cm x 138 cm, Museo Civico, San Gimignano
Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas (1471) - tempera on panel, 230 cm x 102 cm, Muse du Louvre , Paris
the harvest and the Drunkenness of Noah (1469-1484), fresco, Cemetery, Pisa
History of the Virgin (1484) - fresco transferred to canvas, Biblioteca Comunale Castelfiorentino
Deposition from the Cross (1491) - oil on canvas, 180 cm x 300 cm, Museum Horne , Florence