The Magi Chapel is a chapel in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi of Florence, Italy. Its walls are almost entirely covered by a famous cycle of frescoes by the Renaissance master Benozzo Gozzoli, painted ar
Gozzoli magi
Fiorentino's Adoration (after Lippi).
Apse, Detail of the choir of angels.
West Wall, Castruccio Castracani with a leopard, the symbol of his house.
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 fes
Magi Chapel
…chapel in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi of Florence, Italy. Its walls are almost entirely covered by a famous cycle of frescoes by the Renaissance master Benozzo Gozzoli, painted around 1459 for the Medici family, the effective rulers of Florence. The chapel is on the piano nobile of the palace and was one of the first…
Self-portrait from fresco Procession of the Magi
Scenes from the Life of St Francis, Museum Complex of San Francesco, Montefalco, 1452
Purification of the Virgin, 1460–1461 (Philadelphia Museum of Art)