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Benozzo Gozzoli was one of the most prolific and popular Italian painters of the 15th century. His family was from Sant’Ilario a Colombaia on the outskirts of Florence. Active in Tuscany, Umbria and Rome, it is not known with whom he trained, although he seems to have first worked as a goldsmith and later as a painter with Fra Angelico. Gozzoli’s style reveals the marked influence of painters such as Domenico Veneziano, Filippo Lippi, Pesellino and Fra Angelico and he worked with the latter between 1440 and 1445 on the decoration of the monastery of San Marco in Florence. In 1439 Gozzoli was already established as an independent master and in 1445 he worked with Lorenzo Ghiberti and his brother on the Baptistery doors in Florence. Two years later the artist travelled to Rome to assist Fran Angelico in the Vatican. Dating from the 1440s is the panel of Saint Ursula with two Angels and a Donor (National Gallery of Art, Washington). His first signed and dated work is the Virgin and Child enthroned for the church of Montefalco in Umbria. In 1450 the artist was in Perugia and Vit
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Benozzo Gozzoli
Italian painter (c. 1421–1497)
Benozzo Gozzoli (pronounced[beˈnɔttsoˈɡɔddzoli,–ˈɡɔttsoli]; born Benozzo di Lese;[a]c. 1421 – 4 October 1497) was an Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. A pupil of Fra Angelico, Gozzoli is best known for a series of murals in the Magi Chapel of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, depicting festive, vibrant processions with fine attention to detail and a pronounced International Gothic influence. The chapel's fresco cycle reveals a new Renaissance interest in nature with its realistic depiction of landscapes and vivid human portraits. Gozzoli is considered one of the most prolific fresco painters of his generation. While he was mainly active in Tuscany, he also worked in Umbria and Rome.[1]
Biography
Apprenticeship
Gozzoli was born Benozzo di Lese,[a] son of a tailor, in the village of Sant'Ilario a Colombano around 1421. His family moved to nearby Florence in 1427. According to the 16th century Italian biographer Giorgio Vasari, Gozzoli was a pupil a
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Benozzo Gozzoli
Benozzo Gozzoli (c. 1421 – 4 October 1497) was an ItalianRenaissancepainter. He is most famous for a small chapel that he decorated with frescos of the Procession of the Magi.
Life
[change | change source]Benozzo was born in Florence in about 1420. Nothing is known about his parents, or how he started training as an artist. The first that is known of him is that in 1444 he was working with the famous sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti, who was making the bronze doors for the Baptistry of Florence Cathedral.
In 1447 he started working with the painter Fra Angelico. He went to Rome with Fra Angelico to help paint the Chapel of Pope Nicholas V in the Vatican. In 1449 he was working in his own studio.
Works
[change | change source]For many years Benozzo worked as an assistant to other artists. At that time, he had to make his style match the style of the master, so it is hard to tell his art works apart. When Benozzo painted on his own, his pictures are rich with many details in the clothing, the buildings and the landscape. He was extr
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