Benozzo Gozzoli was born in 1420 in Florence, the son of tailor Lese di Sandro. Like many other painters of the early Renaissance, Gozzoli was initially trained as a goldsmith. At the age of 27 he 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, Gozzoli 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.
1438-1444/45. Fresco. Cell 39. San Marco, Florence, Italy. Read Note.
1449. Tempera on silk on a wooden mount. 254 x 130 cm. Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome, Italy.
1450. Fresco. Door lunette, San Fortunato, Montefalco, Italy.
1450. Fresco. 200 x 110 cm. San Fortunato, Montefalco, Italy.
1540. Fresco. 250 x 135. San Fortunato, Montefalco, Italy.
1450. Tempera on Panel. 133 x 165 cm. Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome, Italy.
1450-1452. San Francesco, Montefalco, Italy.
1452. Fresco. 304 x 220 cm. San Francesco, Montefalco, Italy. Read Note.
1452. Fresco. 304 x 220 cm. San Francesco, Montefalco, Italy.
1452. Fresco. 170 x 220 cm. San Francesco, Montefalco, Italy. Read Note.
1452. Fresco. 260 x 220 cm. San Francesco, Montefalco, Italy. Read Note.
1452. Fresco. 260 x 220 cm. San Francesco, Montefalco, Italy.
1452. Fresco. 304 x 220 cm. San Francesco, Montefalco, Italy. Read Note.
1452. Fresco. 304 x 220 cm. San Francesco, Montefalco, Italy.
1452. Fresco. 304 x 220 cm. San Francesco, Montefalco, Italy. Read Note.
1452. Fresco. 304 x 220 cm. San Francesco, Montefalco, Italy.
1452. Fresco. 270 x 220 cm. San Francesco, Montefalco, Italy. Read Note.
1452. Fresco. 270 x 220 cm. San Francesco, Montefalco, Italy. Read Note.
1452. Fresco. 270 x 220 cm. San Francesco, Montefalco, Italy.
1452. Fresco. 304 x 220 cm. San Francesco, Montefalco, Italy. Read Note.
The Chapel of the Magi: Benozzo Gozzoli's Frescoes in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi Florence by Benozzo, Cristina Acidini Luchinat. Thames & Hudson, 1994.
Benozzo Gozzoli by Diane Ahl. Yale University Press, 1996.
Gozzoli 1420-1497 (Masters of Italian Art) by Marion Opitz. Konemann, 1998.
Benozzo Gozzoli: Library of Great Painters (Library of Great Masters) by Luchinat. Scala Publishers, 1995.