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Benozzo Gozzoli Biography

Benozzo Gozzoli was born in 1420 in Florence, the son of tailor Lese di Sandro.

Like many other artists of the early Renaissance, he was initially trained as a goldsmith. At the age of 27 Gozzoli Benozzo di La di Sandro began to work with Fra Angelico (1395-1455) in Orvieto and Rome. During his apprenticeship years, 1438-1444/45, in the workshop of Fra Angelico, he took part in the decoration of the cells in the Dominican monastery of San Marco. The paintings in Cosimo de’Medici’s double cell (cell 38/39) are thought to have been done almost solely by him, and these include a depiction of the Adoration of the Magi.

After completing the Gozzoli Benozzo painting in San Marco, he entered into a contract with Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378-1455), to work with him for three years on the second Baptistery door in Florence, the Gate of Paradise, starting from 24 January 1445.

Both Fra Angelico and Lorenzo Ghiberti were to influence his entire work. From Ghiberti Benozzo Gozzoli learned precision in depicting the finest details and how to illustrate a story vividly, and from Fra Angelico, he took the latter’s bright color palette, which Gozzoli succeeded in transferring to the art of fresco painting.

The commission to paint the private Medici Chapel brought the artist back to Florence. As early as 1442 Pope Martin V had given the Medicis permission to build a private chapel with a portable family altar. The chapel, on the first floor of the Medicis’ residence, was built by Michelozzo (1396-1472) between 1446 and 1449 and dedicated to the Holy Trinity. Stimulated by the prestige attached to this commission and the abundance of materials at his disposal (including gold), Benozzo Gozzoli created one of the most fascinating fresco cycles of 15th-century Florence. Some art historians consider this to be his greatest painting, and it is certainly the most famous of Gozzoli Benozzo paintings.

Benozzo’s last creative period was in Pisa, where he was commissioned in 1469 to carry out a major cycle of frescos for the Composanto comprising 26 pictures from the Old Testament, on which he would work for 16 years. The frescos were almost entirely destroyed as a result of a bomb attack in 1944, which caused a great fire in the Composanto. The undamaged sections were taken off the walls. During the same creative period Benozzo stayed in Legoli in the province of Pisa, where Benozzo Gozzoli had fled in 1478/79 because of the plague. There he created a tabernacle, of which fragments remain today.

During this last creative period of his life, Benozzo also produced two oil paintings, making him one of the first Italian masters to work with oil. the Gozzoli Benozzo paintings were the Descent from the Cross and the Raising of Lazarus, both painted for Bishop Pandolfini.
He died in 1497. Benozzo Gozzoli was buried in the monastery of San Domenico in Pistoria.