Benozzo Gozzoli

Benozzo Gozzoli (c. 1420 in Florence, † October 4, 1497 in Pistoia; actually Benozzo di di Sandro reading ) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance.

Life and work

Gozzoli, son of the tailor reading di Sandro learned in Fra Angelico and accompanied him to Rome in 1446 and 1447 to Orvieto, where he worked until 1449. Then arose in Montefalco, among other things, the Assumption of Mary, to St. Thomas hands over her belt. The painting is in the Pinakothek at the Vatican.

He also painted in San Francesco in 1452 the fresco cycle of the Legend of Saint Francis. To 1456 he went to Florence, where he 1459-61 provided the chapel of the Palazzo Medici Riccardi with frescoes. 1463-1464 he lived in San Gimignano, where he painted, among others, the large, consisting of 17 scenes of frescoes from the life of St. Augustine for the church of Sant 'Agostino. Since about 1468 Gozzoli was living in Pisa, where in the Campo Santo was his major work, a series of 25 frescoes entitled Scenes from the Old Testament. This is followed, he worked for 16 years until 1485th Much of this work was destroyed in 1944.

From these images, the drunkenness of Noah has become proverbial. After the denuded by Noah fingers held ansehenden daughter is called redensartlich a person who feigns modesty, named Vergognosa di Pisa.

From Gozzoli rare panel paintings are highlighted: Madonna with Four Saints ( 1456, National Gallery of Umbria to Perugia), the Madonna Enthroned with Four Saints ( 1461, National Gallery, London), the dance of Salome, ( National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC) and the Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas (Paris, Louvre). Benozzo Gozzoli died in 1497 in Pistoia near Florence and was buried in the Dominican monastery.

Gallery

Marie altar, predella: Miracle of St. Dominic

Abduction of Helen

Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas on Averroes

Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas on Averroes, detail

Train of the Magi