Benozzo Gozzoli 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.
Self-portrait from fresco Procession of the Magi
Madonna and Child Giving Blessings, Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, Rome, 1449 (also attributed to Fra Angelico)
Scenes from the Life of St Francis, Museum Complex of San Francesco, Montefalco, 1452
Journey of the Magi (East Wall), Magi Chapel of Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence, 1459–1461
Fra Angelico, OP was a Dominican friar and Italian painter of the Early Renaissance, described by Giorgio Vasari in his Lives of the Artists as having "a rare and perfect talent". He earned his reputation primarily for the series of frescoes he made for his own friary, San Marco, in Florence, then worked in Rome and other cities. All his known work is of religious subjects.
Posthumous portrait from The Preaching of the Antichrist by Luca Signorelli (c. 1501) in Orvieto Cathedral, Italy
Annunciation, c. 1440–1445
San Marco Altarpiece
The Crucified Christ (detail)